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HUMAN SIDE: FOCUSED
CONVERSATIONS CAN KEEP
EMPLOYEES MOTIVATED
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BETTER MOUSETRAPS: SANITITE HP HELPS
ISLAND CITY AVERT DISASTER
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STORM: PROACTIVE MAINTENANCE
CUTS OVERFLOWS AND BLOCKAGES
IN VIRGINIA BEACH
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Thea Hughes,
general manager of the
Jacksonville Wastewater
Utility in Jacksonville, Ark.
SEALING THE
SYSTEM
Rehabilitation and
outreach efforts are playing
a big role in the Jacksonville
Wastewater Utility’s battle
to eliminate I&I and SSOs
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FEATURES
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SEWER/WATER: High
Tech on the High Plains
Cheyenne, Wyo., is meeting the future head on as it plans for growth and
investigates new technology — including a unique fuel cell demonstration project.
By Peter Kenter
WWETT SHOW ISSUE,
PIPELINE & INFRASTRUCTURE
24
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SEWER: Sealing the System
Rehabilitation and outreach efforts are playing a big role in the Jacksonville
Wastewater Utility’s battle to eliminate I&I and SSOs.
By Dan Heim
44
STORM: No
More Waiting
Proactive approach to operation and maintenance helps Virginia Beach
cut overflows and blockages in its huge, aging system.
By Erik Gunn
44
COLUMNS
8
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FROM THE EDITOR: Find
Your Inspiration
The WWETT Show shines a bright light on this industry and the people
who keep it moving forward.
By Luke Laggis
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BETTER MOUSETRAPS: A
Better Replacement
Poly pipe averts disaster as crumbling asbestos concrete
undermines upstate New York island.
By Stephen C. Cooper
ON THE COVER:
Thea Hughes, general manager of the
Jacksonville Wastewater Utility in Jacksonville, Ark. Rehabilitation and outreach
efforts are playing a big role in the Jacksonville Wastewater Utility’s battle to
eliminate I&I and SSOs. (Photography by
Stephen B. Thornton)
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HUMAN SIDE: It’s
Time to Talk
Focused conversations can foster a workplace filled with
engaged and motivated employees who are less prone to jump ship.
By Ken Wysocky
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NASSCO CORNER: NASSCO Names
New Technical Director
By Ted DeBoda, P.E.
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PRODUCT FOCUS: Pipeline
and Infrastructure
By Craig Mandli
CASE STUDIES: Pipeline
and Infrastructure
By Craig Mandli
PRODUCT NEWS
Product Spotlight: Jetter nozzle captures video from 6- to 10-inch lines.
By Ed Wodalski
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INDUSTRY NEWS
WORTH NOTING
People/Awards; Learning Opportunities; Calendar
COMING IN APRIL 2015
Product Focus: Manhole Equipment & Rehabilitation
F BETTER MOUSETRAPS: Ultrasonic flowmeters
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F HUMAN SIDE: Mentoring programs pay big dividends
F SEWER: St. Cloud turns to sliplining
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FIND YOUR INSPIRATION
The WWETT Show shines a bright light on this industry
and the people who keep it moving forward
W
elcome to the 2015 Water & Wastewater Equipment, Treatment &
Transport (WWETT) Show issue of MSW. I hope you’ve made it to
Indy and are excited to take in everything the show has to offer.
This is the biggest show we’ve ever put on, and we hope it’s the best
you’ve attended.
I’m looking forward to talking to as many of you as possible, getting
your feedback, listening to the issues you’re facing and hearing your stories. Of course, I’m excited to check out all the new tools, trucks and equipment, too, but it’s your stories I’m most interested in.
I’ve been at the helm of MSW for over three years now. We’ve profiled 114 utilities in that time, and everyone reveals a new twist, a different focus or a better way of approaching a problem. It’s an industry with
a high level of technology and innovation, yet sometimes it’s still the
smallest utilities, trying to do more with less, that figure out how to build
a better mousetrap.
FROM THE EDITOR
Luke Laggis
That’s part of what makes the WWETT Show such a great experience
— seeing such a diverse group of people all seeking better ways to serve
their communities. And that’s mirrored by the diversity of manufacturers, from large companies offering the latest and greatest jet/vac trucks
and rehabilitation systems, to the startups providing innovative ways to
address specific issues you face every day. It’s the positive, proactive
approach we celebrate in MSW, and it’s on display all week at the show.
Whether you’re in the classroom, kicking the tires on a half-million-dollar hydroexcavator or striking up conversation with peers in your hotel
lobby, you’ll have no problem finding inspiration. So take advantage, because
the insight you gain could help you solve a nagging problem or chart an
entirely new course for your utility.
You’ll have plenty of opportunities to learn and improve your utility
while you’re here in Indy. You’ll also have plenty of opportunities to relax
and enjoy yourself. Make sure all of the following are on your itinerary:
Whether you’re in the classroom, kicking the
tires on a half-million-dollar hydroexcavator or
striking up conversation with peers in your hotel
lobby, you’ll have no problem finding inspiration.
Education Day. You don’t have to spend all day in the classroom, but be
sure to pick out at least a few classes that address questions, areas of interest or new opportunities you’ve been eyeing. The level of instruction is
excellent, and knowledge gained will serve you year-round.
Walking the floor. OK, this one is obvious, but make sure you see everything on the show floor. You might find the long-sought solution to your
FOG problems or a new inspection system that changes the way you manage your assets. Or you may just walk out with fresh ideas to improve your
operations. Either way, there’s some pretty cool stuff to see.
“I was very
pleased with the
performance
of the Plug
Hug in our
fire hydrant maintenance program.The wear on the
brushes in the Plug Hug itself was very minimal and
my crew was very happy to
not be using hand operated
wire brushes to prepare the
hydrants for painting.”
John Barrett
Supt. of Public Works
Village of Avon, N.Y.
Terry Byrne Inc. • PO Box 444, Mansfield, OH 44901
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Sewer History Exhibit. For the first time, NASSCO and the Arizona
Water Association will have their Sewer History Exhibit on display in the
main corridor outside the exhibit hall. It’s an impressive display of early
ingenuity and a great look at how far the industry has come. Sometimes
taking a look back can help you see the way forward.
Industry Appreciation Party. We’re giving away a truck. Cole Swindell
and Blackjack Billy are playing. And you can wash it all down with 25-cent
tap beer. Enough said. Don’t miss out.
It’s not easy to boil the whole week down to four items on your itinerary, and really, why would you want to? There’s so much more to see and
do. Take it all in, and enjoy the show.
Welcome to Indy! F
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Cheyenne Board of Public Utilities
Operations and Maintenance crew
members clean a section of sewer
line with their Vactor 2100 jet/vac
truck. (Photography by Mike Smith)
HIGH TECH
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Cheyenne, Wyo., is meeting the future head on as it plans for growth and
investigates new technology — including a unique fuel cell demonstration project
By Peter Kenter
T
he Ctity of Cheyenne, Wyo.,
owes its existence to the construction of the Union Pacific
railway — a technological marvel of
the 19th century. The Cheyenne
Board of Public Utilities (CBOPU)
continues that tradition of investigating new technologies, including an
advanced fuel cell that uses sewer
gases to generate electricity for the
benefit of its customers.
The city’s first water system was
developed in the 1870s, pumping
water from Crow Creek to supply
the railroad and provide water for
fire protection. It soon expanded
to supply homes and businesses.
Through the early 1900s, the city
grew into an important military cen-
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ter and cattle town. To meet
increased water demands, Cheyenne
constructed a series of reservoirs, a
water treatment plant, a storage tank
and connecting pipelines. The reservoirs, tank and even some of the
pipes are still in use today.
water and sewer systems. Its first
major project: construction of a
wastewater treatment plant.
An expanding system
Now a city of almost 75,000,
Cheyenne has developed a water sys-
“We’re on the High Plains at over 6,000 feet in elevation, but we’re lucky that the local topography only
requires us to use five sewer lift stations.”
– Frank Strong
During the Dust Bowl years of
the 1930s, the city constructed a
series of wells to augment the Crow
Creek water supply. In 1943 it established the Board of Public Utilities
to manage and control both the
tem that comprises nine reservoirs
and crosses three mountain ranges
— the Continental Divide, the North
Platte River Basin and the Laramie
River Basin. About 250 miles of raw
water mains (34 percent ductile
iron, 29 percent cast iron and 33
percent PVC) collect and transport
water to and from reservoirs. A newly
constructed water treatment plant
can treat up to 32 million gpd and
distribute it through 466 miles of
potable water mains. About 328
miles of sewer mains, primarily vitrified clay and PVC, collect wastewater and deliver it to two water
reclamation facilities. Another 14
miles of reclaimed water mains
deliver recycled water to parks and
sports fields.
“As with most water and wastewater systems, ours are in good condition with numerous mains that
have exceeded their design life and
continue to function,” says Frank
(continued)
Strong, P.E., operations and maintenance manager, CBOPU. “For
example, 29 percent of the water
system is more than 50 years old.
But we’re performing reasonably
well with an average of 9.2 water
main breaks and 10.8 sewer main
backups per 100 miles of collections
system in the last five years. Typically, pipe failure in Cheyenne is the
result of cracks due to the age of
the material or pockets of corrosive
soil. We have a large variety of soil
types in the area, so we require test
holes and geotechnical reports on
all new installations.”
In-house crews are on call 24
hours a day to handle water main
PROFILE:
Board of
Public Utilities,
Cheyenne, Wyo.
YEAR UTILITY
ESTABLISHED:
1943
CUSTOMERS SERVED:
23,071 water accounts
AREA SERVED:
21 sq. mi. +
DEPARTMENT STAFF:
130 employees
INFRASTRUCTURE:
250 miles of raw water
mains, 466 miles of treated
water mains, 14 miles of
reclaimed water mains,
328 miles of sewer mains
ANNUAL DEPARTMENT
OPERATING BUDGET:
$29.2 million (sewer and
water)
ASSOCIATIONS:
American Water Works
Association, American Society of Civil Engineers, Water
Environment Federation,
Wyoming Water and Wastewater Agency Response
Network, Wyoming Water
Quality & Pollution Control
Association
WEBSITE:
www.cheyennecity.org/index.
aspx?nid=157
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“Typically, pipe failure in Cheyenne
is the result of cracks due to the age
of the material or pockets of corrosive
soil. We have a large variety of soil
types in the area, so we require test
holes and geotechnical reports on
all new installations.”
–Frank Strong
Two Board of Public Utilities
workers close a steel door at a
water collection point in the
Little Snake River Basin near
Encampment, Wyo. Water
collected here is stored in Hog
Park Reservoir.
breaks and sanitary sewer backups.
However, winter quickly puts the
deep freeze on Cheyenne soil. Jackhammers are often used to break
through frost layers anywhere from
3 inches to 4 feet thick.
The utility operates a rigorous
preventive maintenance program
for both water and sewer systems.
Water distribution system maintenance includes hydrant flushing,
valve exercising and curb stop maintenance. The city rehabilitates 2
miles of water mains and replaces
20 fire hydrants annually.
Listening for leaks
Water system leak testing
includes 32 remote leak sensors
placed inside existing water valve
boxes. These are later collected and
data is analyzed so that utility staff
can follow up reports of potential
leaks with higher-precision Gutermann acoustic microphones and
correlators.
The maintenance program for
the collections system includes 110
miles of sewer main cleaning each
year, using four combination trucks
— three Vactors and a Vac-Con. The
maintenance program also includes
manhole maintenance, manhole
replacement, point repairs, root
Cheyenne Board of Public Utilities Operations and Maintenance crew
members excavate a waterline beneath a residential street.
treatment, video inspection and lift
station maintenance.
“We’re on the High Plains at
over 6,000 feet in elevation, but
we’re lucky that the local topography only requires us to use five sewer
lift stations,” Strong says.
In-house crews perform the
majority of sewer maintenance work,
with the exception of rehab projects, root treatment and some manhole replacement.
Utility crews also handle sewer
point repairs using a trenchless,
resin-based pipe patch system.
“We budget annually to rehabilitate 1.5 miles of sewer mains per
year,” Strong says.
Predictable growth
While Cheyenne is undoubtedly
benefiting from the local oil and gas
boom, a diversified economy, including agricultural and high-tech sectors, has the region growing
comfortably and steadily at about 1
percent per year.
The city’s capital projects over
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Wastewater collections system
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The biggest project is Phase 1 of a
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to increase its sewer main rehabilitation rate from 1.5 miles per year
to 2.5 miles per year, also in 2018.
A group of visitors
tours Microsoft’s
zero-carbon, waste-toenergy-powered data
plant at the City of
Cheyenne’s Dry Creek
Water Reclamation
Facility. The facility
uses biogas methane to
power a fuel cell at the
data plant.
Powering up with fuel cells
Cheyenne Board of Public
Utilities Operations and Maintenance Manager Frank Strong on
a job site in Cheyenne.
the next 10 years total an estimated
$212 million, with about half that
budget devoted to new transmission
mains, distribution mains and water
main rehabilitation. The budget
includes Phase II of the $22.5 million Southern Water Transmission
Main project, completed in 2014.
The project added 11.5 miles of
42-inch transmission mains to supply water to neighborhoods in the
southern areas of Cheyenne. Phase
III of the project is already in the
planning stage.
“Included in the recommended
capital projects is an increase in Chey-
The utility also continues to
investigate new technology.
A demonstration project at the
utility’s Dry Creek wastewater facility uses biogas to power a Microsoft
data center through fuel cell technology, which harnesses chemical
reactions directly to generate electricity. The $7.6 million demonstration project will power a
containerized Microsoft IT server.
“The server will crunch enough
real-life data to test the concept and
determine whether the energy provided by the fuel cell will provide
consistent energy under load,” says
Anja Bendel, director of business
development with Cheyenne LEADS,
a private, not-for-profit economic
development organization that
RESERVOIR CAMS KEEP
AN EYE ON WATER SUPPLY
Cheyenne, Wyo., was originally located around the water supply
provided by Crow Creek, flowing though the Laramie Mountains. As the
city and its metropolitan area grew, so did its need for new water
supplies.
“We now have a vast water system that crosses three mountain
ranges,” says Frank Strong, operations and maintenance manager with
the Cheyenne Board of Public Utilities (CBOPU). “In the summer, our
source of supply crews regularly travel to Saratoga, about 150 miles
west of Cheyenne, and stay there for four-day shifts to manage the
water supply infrastructure.”
To help extend the utility’s reach, security cameras maintain a
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24-hour vigil over all of the city’s water supplies, reservoirs and critical
water infrastructure.
“Source of supply crews, operators and engineering staff use the
Web cameras to check on weather conditions, security and operational
information,” Strong says. “Operators can, if needed, manipulate the
cameras remotely.”
However, some of the cameras focused on city reservoirs feed
directly to the CBOPU website and are accessible to the public.
“Cheyenne’s reservoirs and the land around them are used by
recreationalists who check the cameras for weather conditions,” Strong
says. “However, placing the camera feeds on the website is more than a
public service. It also allows the U.S. Forest Service, state agencies and
downstream communities to monitor the reservoirs. Better still, it
allows our crews to monitor conditions from any mobile or Internet
device, even while en route to resources that are several hours away
from Cheyenne.”
An exterior view of the Dry Creek Water
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assisted in the bid proposal to host the pilot at
CBOPU and helped coordinate the project.
The fuel cell plant was designed to produce 300
kilowatts of renewable power while the data center
will only use about 200 kW. The excess electricity
will be delivered to the wastewater treatment plant.
Microsoft will use the data collected in further
research, which could see pint-sized fuel cells placed
directly inside data server racks.
A bonus for the utility — by installing the sophisticated monitoring systems associated with the project, the wastewater plant will be better able to monitor
and analyze its own overall operations.
The project combined the contributions of private industry partners such as Microsoft, Jacobs Engineering, Evoqua Water Technologies and FuelCell
Energy Inc. with a coalition that included CBOPU,
the University of Wyoming, the Wyoming Business
Council, the Western Research Institute, and state
and local government partners.
After the 18-month demonstration project has
concluded, Microsoft will donate the data plant infrastructure to the participants, including the University of Wyoming, for further research.
“It’s unusual to have that many stakeholders working together on a common goal,” Bendel says. “This
utility project shows what you can achieve when you’re
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BETTER MOUSETRAPS
A BETTER
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Poly pipe averts disaster as crumbling asbestos concrete undermines upstate New York island
By Stephen C. Cooper
T
he final straw for a long section of the sanitary sewer line in Grand
Island, N.Y., was a sinkhole large enough for a dump truck and sewage that flooded local residences and businesses in August 2013.
Running under Whitehaven Road, the main east/west multilane street,
the 35-year-old, 30-inch-diameter asbestos cement pipe failed due to corrosion from hydrogen sulfide gas. Six hundred and fifty feet of 30-inch-diameter SaniTite HP triple-wall polypropylene pipe replaced the failed concrete
pipe at depths of 22 to 24 feet.
Due to the extreme nature of the pipe failure and because the Town of
Grand Island is surrounded by the Niagara River, it was imperative that the
pipe be replaced quickly to prevent further damage to homes and buildings, and to stop any effluent from flowing into the Niagara River and eventually over Niagara Falls, causing a potential environmental disaster. The
$500,000 emergency repair took a month to complete.
Since the 1700s, the Town of Grand Island has been a resort, a lumber
town, a colonial battleground, part of the City of Buffalo and part of the
nearby Town of Tonawanda. Today, it is home to more than 20,000 residents
and hundreds of businesses, ranging from small stores to major corporations
with 500 people and more. The island town is 8 miles from Niagara Falls.
Sections of SaniTite HP triple-wall polypropylene pipe are staged to
replace a failed 30-inch asbestos concrete sewer main in Grand Island,
N.Y. During the repair, the crew used 8- and 12-inch pumps to bypass
the area. RIGHT and BOTTOM RIGHT: Crews excavate the failed line,
which was buried 22 to 24 feet deep along a busy highway.
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“We had an asbestos cement pipe that over the years was being eaten away
by hydrogen sulfide gas,” explains John Whitney, P.E., Grand Island engineer.
“This pipe originates upstream and the end of it is a tributary to a very long
force main. Sewage goes septic in that force main. When it gets discharged
into the gravity sewer, which is the 30-inch ACP, hydrogen sulfide gas mixes
with air and you end up with various permeations of sulfuric acid. That is very
destructive to cement and the pipe got so thin it just collapsed. It had already
caused a sink hole the size of a dump truck and 27 feet deep.”
Among other plastics, polypropylene is inert to the effects of hydrogen
sulfide present in sanitary sewers, making it a highly recommended material of choice to replace deteriorating infrastructure across the country. SaniTite HP has been used in similar emergency repairs to replace failed
infrastructure in Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
“In other sections, also, there was a tremendous amount of dirt that had
infiltrated into the pipe from cracks,” he says. “We ran a camera in there and
looked upstream from one of the downstream manholes and saw that the
dirt went right to the ceiling of the pipe. And because the pipe was in such a
deteriorated condition, we would not have been able to clean it without
destroying it. We replaced it in the same trench with the SaniTite HP pipe.”
A satellite view of Grand Island
surrounded by the Niagara River.
– Bill Kelley
time and labor and makes for a more secure system
versus the several-ton weight of each short section
of comparable concrete pipe.
According to Bill Kelley of Lock City Supply in
Lockport, N.Y., who provided the materials for the
job, “This was a very deep cut near a very busy highway, and the repair had to be done quickly and safely.
Not only is the pipe we used a good quality product,
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Aside from the depth, the project also had other
challenges, including a 1.5-inch rain storm, a ductile iron pipeline that had to be cut and reinstalled,
plus high-voltage electric lines overhead.
“The break was right in front of a water pumping station with a 3-million-gallon water tank, and
there was a 16-inch ductile iron water transmission
main which we had to cross,” Whitney explains. “The
only way to do this was to physically isolate it, cut
the line, run the new sanitary line and then reinstall
the iron pipe.
“We were also adjacent to the National Grid power
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During the repair, the crew used 8- and 12-inch pumps to bypass the
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Rehabilitation and outreach efforts are playing a big role in the
Jacksonville Wastewater Utility’s battle to eliminate I&I and SSOs
By Dan Heim
J
acksonville is in central Arkansas, just off I-40 about 12 miles
northeast of Little Rock. It’s not
a heavily industrialized area, and the
majority of the wastewater utility’s
flow comes from residential sources.
But with many pipes over 60 years
old, some going back to the 1930s,
and an average 50 inches of rain
annually, SSOs and I&I were causing
problems for the Jacksonville Wastewater Utility as early as 1980.
“That’s when we got serious,”
says Bob Williams, engineering construction manager for JWU. “We
started looking at where that I&I was
coming from. What we found was
contributions from both pipes and
manholes, with manholes typically
the worst offenders.”
And so in 2000, JWU began their
continuing efforts, now about twothirds complete, spending to date
some $18.5 million on rehab and
replacement. Overflows from I&I
have been reduced from 27 in 2009
to zero in 2014, a significant
decrease. Since 2008, I&I has been
reduced on average by 45 percent,
with up to 63 percent on some lines.
Jacksonville’s problems
Jacksonville Wastewater Utility’s Kenneth Maxwell (left) and
Alex Manriquez clean a sewer main, part of Jacksonville’s
routine maintenance plan, with a Vac-Con combination truck.
(Photography by Stephen B. Thornton)
The main issue was simply the
age and condition of their pipes and
manholes and the resulting I&I and
SSOs. Their original two treatment
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a manhole during a warranty
inspection of an 8-inch PVC
PROFILE:
Jacksonville (Ark.)
Wastewater Utility
SERVICE AREA:
29 square miles
CUSTOMERS:
9,000, mostly residential
POPULATION DENSITY:
1,134 per square mile
INFRASTRUCTURE:
177.5 miles gravity pipe (6-42
inch, PVC, concrete, clay,
DI, HDPE), 15 miles force
main (2-18 inch, PVC, DI),
14 lift stations (90-3,500
gpm), 3,500 manholes, singletreatment plant with 12 mgd
capacity
ANNUAL BUDGET:
$3.9 million O&M,
$2.5 million capital (2014 data)
EMPLOYEES:
36 full-time (plus outside
contractors)
AVERAGE RAINFALL:
50 inches per year
WEBSITE:
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plants used old technology and were
being increasingly overwhelmed by
daily loads.
Some of that I&I is coming from
private residences through pipes on
the owners’ property, likewise from
sanitary tee clean-outs with caps that
have been dislodged or removed and
not replaced. Residential contributions are difficult to measure, but
based on specific instances encountered they add an easily avoidable
load to the collections system. Many
homes in the JWU service area are
at least as old as the city’s pipes.
Jacksonville discharges stormwater directly without any processing
into Bayou Meto, a small tributary
of the Arkansas River. Processing
would involve a huge cost they’d obviously prefer to avoid, and Jacksonville wants to keep their system split.
“That’s a separate department
from ours, and they have to monitor their own effluent,” says Walton
Jay Summers, JWU collections system manager. “That started about
2002 when they applied for an
NPDES permit to use Bayou Meto
for stormwater. To date, their effluent is still within specs. The only
stormwater we have to deal with is
what gets into our system through
and no real dry season. The cold
season lasts on average from late
November to late February with
freezing temperatures averaging 30
percent of the year. Trenching can
“We’re doing a good job with that outreach, seeing
improvement every year, and probably pushing it
harder than a lot of cities. Grease and ‘flushable’ wipes
are a problem all over the country, so I hope others can
learn from our success.”
– Thea Hughes
I&I.”
Their Class C soils (clay and soft
rock) are susceptible to heaving and
subsidence — not a good thing when
a lot of your pipe is clay or concrete.
Topography within the service area
varies in elevation by only around
100 feet, so gravity lines are possible, but 14 pump stations are still
required. Gravity lines with the requisite slope are limited in depth for
practical reasons.
Jacksonville has a warm, humid,
temperate climate with hot summers
be done in winter as the depth of
frozen soil is never more than a few
inches. Snowfall during this same
period is even less an issue, with an
average of only 4 inches annually.
Still, it’s hard to trench in wet
Class C soil. With an average annual
rainfall of 50 inches and an average
depth to groundwater from 0 to 20
feet, more often than not they are
digging in mud. This can be done
safely using approved trench-shoring
practices, but is an impediment to
what would normally be an easy job.
An Aries LE 2165 Lateral Launch System is
positioned at the base of a manhole at the
start of a mainline inspection. Far right: The
view from the inspection monitor as the
camera makes its way through the line.
JWU’s solutions
With 177.5 miles of aging pipe, 3,500 manholes and 14 lift stations, the
obvious solution was a full system inspection, repairing what they could and
replacing what they couldn’t.
JWU does a lot of their work in-house but subs out pipe bursting to Horseshoe Construction of La Porte, Texas. “We did our
first pipe bursting in 2000, and since that time we’ve
used only two contractors for that work,” recalls Williams. “Initially, we used the Heller Company from
Hot Springs, Ark.”
Likewise with their CIPP projects where contractors are drawn from local sources, Williams explains,
“Our contractors have to go through the usual bid
process, but if we’re happy with their work the contract has an option for us to renew them for another
four years.”
Most of the pipe going in around new construction is PVC or HDPE. For pipe that’s being replaced,
what’s already there presents some constraints. If they
can make plastic work, that’s what they’ll put in. The
existing clay and concrete pipes just haven’t held up
in their Class C soils.
For the manholes, which are mostly in-house projects, JWU uses any of a number of products, all
cementitious compounds. They’re still comparing
efficacies and haven’t yet settled on a specific brand.
“When you have to do bursting into a manhole,
there’s usually considerable reconstruction needed,
so we make that work part of the pipe bursting process,” Williams says. “That allows our own crews to
handle the more straightforward rehabs.”
Manhole rehab was started back in 2008. Since
then JWU has seen a reduction in I&I from between
29 to 63 percent with an average of 45 percent, and
that’s with only two-thirds of the manholes done. SSOs
caused by I&I have also been reduced from 27 in 2009
to three in 2013 to zero in 2014 (as of December).
“We’re addressing I&I from private residences
with our service line program,” says Thea Hughes,
JWU general manager. “It’s actually been in effect
since the early ‘90s, but we’re pushing it more now.
Once an I&I issue is identified, we require the homeowner to make the needed repairs at their own cost.
“We provide a letter and diagram explaining the
problem along with suggested fixes. They have 90
days to make those repairs or we shut off their water.
If they can’t afford it, we provide a loan program
through our local HUD office to help them out.”
So JWU is now getting more of the wastewater
and less of the rainwater into the treatment plant.
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Can The Grease explains alternative disposal methods for household
(continued)
Outreach and education
JWU maintains a website that contributes to their
success. On their home page, prominently displayed,
are three important links for customer education:
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SERVING THE MILITARY
Jacksonville Wastewater Utility’s Todd Collins (left) and Steve
Grobeck assist with the confined-space entry equipment as Joey
Shofe enters a manhole to perform rehabilitation work.
Located just inside the city limits of Jacksonville, Ark., Little Rock
AFB is tied into the Jacksonville Wastewater Utility (JWU) system.
They don’t have their own treatment plant, but they do have 80,000
feet of gravity lines and 323 manholes. So that adds to the total load
processed by JWU.
“The base contributes about 18 percent of our wastewater
processing load, but we never need to go in there because they are
responsible for maintaining all their own pipes and manholes,” notes
Thea Hughes, JWU general manager.
Bob Williams, engineering construction manager for JWU, adds,
“There’s been nothing especially hazardous coming from that source. In
fact, their compliance with our wastewater guidelines is better than
average.”
Still, JWU maintains a separate water-quality monitoring system for
the effluent from the base. It’s a prudent measure given the unique
nature of the source. No problems have been detected to date.
Little Rock AFB is home to the 19th Airlift Wing, a part of the
Military Airlift Command. Base Commander Col. Patrick J. Rhatigan
oversees some 10,000 base personnel participating in their mission.
They are known as the “Home of the C-130 Combat Airlift,” supporting more than 65 of those venerable workhorse aircraft.
The C-130 is a heavy-lift machine with a range of 1,150 miles and a
maximum payload of 21 tons. It’s still in regular use for support
missions within the states as a FEMA resource and overseas in support
of combat operations.
The working relationship between JWU and Little Rock AFB has
been mutually beneficial. Col. Rhatigan has consistently supported
JWU’s wastewater guidelines, avoiding increased wastewater charges,
and JWU appreciates their cooperation.
“In 2011, for example, over 60 percent of our service
calls were related to grease blockages in the main. And
it cost the citizens over $19,000 to clean those up. This
year we’ve got that down to $3,000 to $4,000.”
– Walton Jay Summers
General Manager Thea Hughes (front, second from right) with her
staff at the Jacksonville Wastewater Utility.
grease and advocates allowing the
grease to cool and solidify in cans
or cartons for later delivery to the
landfill with other household trash.
Commercial establishments are
required to use grease traps. Com-
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pliance has been very good across
both sectors.
“In 2011, for example, over 60
percent of our service calls were
related to grease blockages in the
main,” Summers says. “And it cost
the citizens over $19,000 to clean
those up. In 2014, we got that down
to $3,000 to $4,000.”
The Water’s Worth It section,
created by the Water Environment
Federation, makes more of an intellectual appeal:
Clean water is critical to sustain life,
yet we take it for granted. The world’s
water supply is finite. Water is a valuable resource that can be recovered and
reused if wisely managed. Future generations are relying on us to find innovative and holistic ways to ensure adequate
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Wipe Out Wipes addresses the
issue of sanitary wipes that are often
advertised as being flushable, but
in practice are not. “Manufacturers
have guidelines for being able to use
that label, but all that really means
is they can be flushed,” notes
Hughes. “It says nothing about the
ability of the product to break down
once it’s in the lines. It often ends
up getting caught on roots or other
intrusions and wrapping around
pump motors.
“What we’re finding is that these
things make it into our pumps and
can cause mechanical problems that
are costly to fix. This is happening
all around the country and all
around the world. Can The Grease
has been extremely successful, but
we’re really struggling with this wipes
issue. Our slogan has only been in
Alex Manriquez (left) and Kenneth Maxwell at the controls of a
Vac-Con combination truck while cleaning a sewer main.
effect for two years, but we’re hoping that if we continue to push it, it’ll
eventually catch on.”
The road forward
JWU is not on a rigid completion schedule. They do what they can within
their budget each year. “We’re looking at probably another 10 years to wrap
this all up,” says Williams.
Fortunately their pump stations are in good shape, as is the treatment
plant, so JWU will continue to focus their resources
on pipe and manhole infrastructure.
Regular maintenance on the pump stations and
treatment plant also tap into their budget, but they
hope to lower those costs through their Wipe Out
Wipes and Can The Grease educational outreach
programs.
“We’re doing a good job with that outreach, seeing improvement every year, and probably pushing
it harder than a lot of cities,” says Hughes. “Grease
and ‘flushable’ wipes are a problem all over the country, so I hope others can learn from our success.
We’ve already been contacted by several cities in
Arkansas who want to learn about our programs,
like coordinating HUD loan assistance for service
line repair by homeowners.”
The JWU educational outreach also extends into
area schools. Just last year a local high school student won first place at their science fair for a project investigating how “flushable” various types of
wipes really are. JWU helped with that research. Her
project was featured as a poster board at the Water
Environment Federation Technical Expo & Conference held in New Orleans last October.
JWU has yet to establish an internship program
for students interested in pursuing a career in water
management, but hopes to in the future. They are
deeply involved with the Arkansas Water Environment Association’s Young Professionals Committee,
a statewide association, with a JWU staff member
serving as chair of the YPC.
The YPC is working with schools to attract students to their profession. As with many utilities, the
“graying of personnel” is an issue at JWU. Attracting the number of qualified replacements needed
to offset attrition is an ongoing battle.
“I’d say our work on reducing I&I is about as
good as it can get,” notes Williams. “We’ve really
been aggressive about that, and it’s paying off in
many ways. That applies to city mainlines and private service lines. I feel really good about where
we are now and where we’ll be a few years down
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Current Exhibitor List
3T Equipment Company Inc.
A. Rhodes Wilson & Associates, Inc.
A.R. North America
Abbott Rubber Company, Inc.
ABCO Industries Limited
Absolute Ablutions Mobile Trailer
Manufacturer
Acro Trailer
Advance Pump & Equipment
Advanced Containment Systems Inc.
Advanced Drainage Systems
Advanced Infrastructure Technologies, LLC
Advanced Pressure Systems
Advantage Funding
Aero-Tech
Airfeet
AK Industries Inc.
Alderon Industries, Inc.
All Star Sewer Equipment
Allan J. Coleman Co.
Allied Forward Motion LLC
Allied Graphics
Alpine Equipment Funding, Inc.
Alteris-SeptiCover
AlturnaMATS, Inc.
Amazing Machinery, LLC.
Ameri-Can Engineering
American Express OPEN
American Melt Blown & Filtration Inc
American Pipe & Plastics, Inc.
Amesbury / Bandlock Products
Amthor International
Anderson Metals Corp., Inc.
Anua
AP/M Permaform
Aqua Blast Corporation
Aqua Mole Technologies Inc.
AquaFlow
AquaSoles by V.P. Marketing
Arcan Enterprises Inc.
Aries Industries Inc.
Armal, Inc.
ART Company (A Restroom Trailer Company)
Arthur Custom Tank / Mid-State Tank
Arthur Products Co.
Ashland PolyTrap
Ashland Pump
Atlanta Rubber & Hydraulics Inc.
Atlas Portable Sanitation
Avanti International
B Green Group
Bad Dog Tools
BakerCorp
Ball Brass and Aluminum Foundry Inc.
Banjo Corporation
Barnett
BASE Engineering Inc.
Bayco NightStick/The Jolly Group, Inc.
BDP Industries, Inc.
Benjamin Media Inc.
Benlee, Inc.
Best Enterprises Inc.
Best Equipment Company
Betts Industries Inc.
Biffs Pathfinders, LLC
BioLynceus
Bio-Microbics Inc.
Bionetix International
Bio-Systems International
BKP Berolina Polyester GmbH & Co. KG
Black Tie Products
Blasters, Inc.
Blue Angel Pumps
bluefrog Plumbing + Drain™
BODUS GmbH
Boerger LLC
Brandenburger Liner GmbH & Co. KG
BRAWOLINER
Brenlin Company, Inc.
Bright Dyes
Bright Technologies Specialty
Div. of Sebright Products, Inc.
Brothers Equipment
Brown Bear Corporation
Buckhorn Pumps, Inc
Bucks Fabricating
Bulk Toilet Paper
Bull Frog Industries LLC
BW Technologies by Honeywell/
Honeywell Analytics
C&E Plastics Inc.
C&H Services
C.I.Agent Solutions
Cam Spray
Canam Equipment Solutions, Inc.
Canplas Industries Ltd
Cape Cod Biochemical Co.
CAPPELLOTTO S.P.A.
Cat Pumps®
Cavallero Plastics, Inc.
CEMTEC / A.W. Cook Cement Products
Century Paper & Chemical
Champion Pump Company, Inc.
Chandler Equipment
Chelsea Products/Div. of Parker
Chempace Corporation
Chempure Products Corp.
Cherne Industries
CIPP Services, LLC
Clayton Industries
Clear Computing
Clearstream Wastewater Systems Inc.
Cloverleaf Tool Co.
Cobra Technologies
Columbia Tanks LLC
Comet USA, Inc.
Comforts of Home Services, Inc.
Concrete Sealants Inc.
Coneqtec-Universal
Consolidated Treatment Systems, Inc.
Containment Solutions
CoreBiologic, LLC
Cotta Transmissions
Cougar Vibration, Div of Martin Engineering
COXREELS
CPACEX
Crescent Tank Manufacturing
Cretex Specialty Products
CromaFlow Inc.
Crust Busters/Schmitz Bros.
CUES
Cummins Power Products
Cusco
De Neef Construction Chemicals
Del Vel Chem Co.
Depth Ray
Ditch Witch
Dove Ventures Inc.
Downey Ridge Environmental
Dragon Products
Draincables Direct
DryLet LLC
Dultmeier Sales
Duracable Manufacturing
Dyna Flex Inc.
Dynablast
DynaLiner LLC
Dynamic Decals & Graphics, Inc.
Dynamic Filtration Limited
Dyna-Vac Equipment
E Z Onsite
Easy Kleen Pressure Systems Ltd.
Easy Liner
Eco Infrastructure Solutions
Ecological Laboratories Inc.
Eldon C. Stutsman, Inc.
Electric Eel Mfg.
EleMech, Inc.
Eljen Corporation
Environment One Corporation
Envirosight
Enviro-Tech of America, Inc.
Enz USA Inc.
Epps Products
Equipment Sales, LLC
E-Tank, Ltd./ E-Pump
EVAPAR
Explorer Trailers - McKee Technologies
EZTRAKR Systems
Famhost Apps
Federal Signal Environmental
Solutions Group
FerraTex
Fieldbook ERP
Fisher Labs
Five Peaks
FKC Co. Ltd.
Fleetmatics
Flo Trend Systems
FlowMark, LLC
FM Manufacturing Inc.
Forbest Products Co.
Ford Commercial Vehicles
Foremost
Forest River, Inc.
FORMADRAIN Inc.
Franklin Electric
Fruitland Manufacturing
Fuji Clean USA, LLC
Galbreath
Gamajet, part of the Alfa Laval Group
GapVax Inc.
Gardner Denver Water Jetting Systems Inc.
Gardner Denver Wittig
GE Oil & Gas - Roots Blowers
GEA Farm Technologies, Inc. (USA)
General Pipe Cleaners
General Pump
Geoflow, Inc.
German Pavilion/Federal Ministry
for Economic Affairs and Energy
GfG Instrumentation, Inc.
Giant Industries
Global Vacuum Systems, Inc.
Go Green Environmental Products
Go To Parts
Godwin, a Xylem Brand
Goldak Inc.
Gorlitz Sewer & Drain, Inc.
Gorman-Rupp Company
GPM Pump & Truck Parts, LLC
GPS Insight
Grease Guardian
Green Mountain International, LLC
Greener Planet Systems
GRU, LLC
H2 Technical Rescue Equipment
Hammelmann Corp.
HammerHead Trenchless Equipment
Hannay Reels Inc
Happy Feet
Harben Inc.
Hart Industries
Hathorn Corporation
Hauler Agent
HCP Pumps of America, Inc.
Hedstrom Plastics
Helix Laboratories Inc.
Hella, Inc.
Hermann Sewerin GmbH
Hermes Technologie
Hibon, Inc. (a division of Ingersoll Rand)
Hino Trucks
Hi-Vac Corporation
Hot Jet USA
Hurco Technologies Inc.
Hydra-Flex, Inc.
Hydra-Tech Pumps
Hydratron, Inc.
Hy-Flex Corporation
I.S.T. Services, Inc.
IBG HydroTech
Imperial Industries Inc.
Impreg International GmbH
IMS Robotics GmbH
In The Round Dewatering
Indiana Onsite Wastewater
Professionals Association
Infiltrator Systems Inc.
InfoSense, Inc.
Infrastructure Repair Systems, Inc.
Infrastructure Technologies - ITpipes
Innovative Equipment, LLC
InSight Mobile Data Inc.
Insight Vision Cameras
Integrated Vehicle Leasing / Financing
ITI Trailers & Truck Bodies Inc
J&J Chemical Co.
J. Hvidtved Larsen US
J.C. Gury Company, Inc.
Jack Doheny Companies
JAG Mobile Solutions
Jameson LLC
JD7
Jet Clean Tools USA Inc.
Jet Inc.
JeTech, Inc.
Jets Vacuum AS
Jetter Depot
Joe Johnson Equipment, Inc.
John Bean Jetters
Johnny’s Choice by Chempcorp
Joints Couplings
KeeVac Industries Inc.
KEG Kanalreinigungstechnik GmbH
Keith Huber Corporation
Kentucky Tank, Inc.
Kewanna Screen Printing
Kifco, Inc.
Kros International USA
Kroy Industries
Kuriyama of America, Inc.
LANSAS Products Mfd.
by Vanderlans & Sons, Inc.
LaPlace Equipment Co Inc.
Lely Manufacturing, Inc.
Lenzyme/Trap-Cleer Inc.
Liberty Financial Group, Inc.
Liberty Pumps
LIFTPLAQ
Linco-Precision, LLC
Liquid Environmental Solutions
Liquid Waste Industries
Liquid Waste Technology LLC
LMK Technologies
LMT Inc.
Lock America, Inc.
Locqus
Lodar Ltd.
Logan Clutch Corporation
Logiball Inc.
Longhorn Tank & Trailer
Ludwig Pfeiffer Hoch- und
Tiefbau GmbH & Co. KG
MacQueen Equipment Group
Madewell Products Corporation
Mailhot Industries
Mainline Backflow Products, Inc.
Masport Inc
Masterliner, Inc.
Material Motion, Inc.
MaxLiner USA
McLaughlin Group, Inc.
Medit Inc.
Meese Orbitron Dunne Company
Merrell Bros., Inc.
Mid-State Tank Co., Inc.
Midwest Vac Products LLC
Miller Pipeline
Milliken
Millner-Haufen Tool Company
Milwaukee Pump
Milwaukee Rubber Products Inc.
Mi-T-Machine
Mobile Hydraulic Equipment Co., LLC
Mobile Restroom Designs
Money In Motion
MONOFORM by Infratech
Moro USA
Mr. Rooter Corp.
MTC
MTech
Mud Technology International, Inc.
Murphy by Enovation Controls
MyTana Mfg. Co. Inc.
NASSCO, Inc.
National Joint Powers Alliance
National Precast Concrete Association
National Truck Center
National Vacuum Equipment
580 companies - list current as of January 19, 2015.
Nature Calls
NAWT - National Association of
Wastewater Technicians
Netafim USA
Nexstar Network, Inc.
NLB Corp.
Northeast Industrial Mfg
Norweco Inc.
NovaFlex Hose
NOWRA - National Onsite
Wastewater Recycling Association
NozzTeq‚ Inc.
NSF International
Nu Flow
NuConcepts
Oakmont Capital Services LLC
Oceanquip Cables, LLC
Ohio Electric Control, Inc.
Omega Liquid Waste Solutions
OMSI Transmissions, Inc.
One Biotechnology
Orenco Systems, Inc.
Otto Trading Inc.
PA SpA
Parson Environmental Products Inc.
Pat’s Pump & Blower
PC Scale Technologies
Pearpoint/SPX
Peinemann Equipment
Penn Valley Pump Co., Inc.
Penny Pockets
Pentair
People’s United Equipment Finance Corp.
Perma-Liner Industries LLC.
Petersen Products
Petrofield Industries
Phoenix USA Inc.
Picote Solutions
Pik Rite Inc.
PinPoint GPS Solutions Inc.
Pipe Lining Supply, Inc.
PipeHunter, Inc.
Pipeline Analytics
Pipeline Renewal Technologies
PipeLogix Inc.
Pipenology, LLC
Pipe-Robo-Tec USA
PipeTech Software
Piranha Hose Products
PIRIT Heated Hose
Plug-It Products
Polston Applied Technologies
Poly-Flow
PolyJohn Enterprises Corp.
Polylok Inc. / Zabel
PolyPortables, LLC
Porta Pro Chemical Company
Portable Sanitation Association International
POSM Software LLC
Powertrack International Inc.
Pow-R Mole
Premier Oilfield Equipment Co.
Premier Tech Aqua
Presby Environmental, Inc.
Pressure Lift Corporation
Presvac Systems, Ltd.
PRIME DRILLING GmbH
Prime Resins, Inc.
PrimeLine Products
Progress Tank
Proline Group AB
Pronal-USA, Inc.
ProPulse, A Schieffer Company
Protective Liner Systems
PSI Pressure Systems Corp
PUMPTEC
Qingdao Donghengli Industy
Equipment Co., Ltd.
Quadex / Interfit
Quik-Lining Systems, Inc.
R. Nesbit Portable Toilets
Rain for Rent
Ram Commercial
RapidView IBAK North America
Ratech Electronics, Ltd.
Rausch USA
Ravo Sweepers
RC Industries Inc.
RCS II Inc.
RecoverE
REED Manufacturing Company
Reelcraft Industries Inc.
Refractron
Reline America Inc.
Renssi
Resiplast US, Inc.
ReviewBuzz
RH2O North America Inc.
Rich Specialty Trailers
RIDGID
Ring-O-Matic
Rioned UK Limited
Ritam Technologies, LLC
RITEC GmbH
RKI Instruments, Inc.
Robinson Vacuum Tanks, Inc.
Robuschi & C.S.p.A.
Rochester Metal Products Corp
RODDIE Inc.
Roeda Signs & ScreenTech Imaging
Roll-Off Parts.com
RootX
Roth Global Plastics
ROTHENBERGER USA
RotoSolutions
RouteOptix Inc.
RS Technical Services Inc.
Rush Refuse Systems
Rush-Overland Manufacturing
Sabre Manufacturing
SAERTEX multiCom LP
Safe-T-Fresh
Safety Sewer Drain
Salcor, Inc.
Satellite Industries Inc.
Satellite Suites
Sauereisen, Inc.
Savatech Corp.
Scadata, Inc.
Scorpion Protective Coatings
Screenco Systems LLC
Sealing Systems Inc.
SECO Truck Inc.
See Water Inc.
Septic Maxx
Septic Products Inc.
Septic Services Inc.
SeptiTech
Septronics, Inc.
Service Roundtable
ServiceTitan
Sewer Equipment
Shamrock Pipe Tools Inc.
Shenzhen Schroder Industry Measure
& Control Equipment Co., Ltd.
Sherwin Williams
ShuBee
Sim/Tech Filter Inc.
SJE-Rhombus
Slewmaster Inc.
Slide-In Warehouse
SludgeHammer Group Limited
SnakeLiner
Soft-Pak
Solar LED Innovations, LLC
Sonetics Corporation
Source 1 Environmental
Southland Tool Mfg. Inc.
Spartan Tool LLC
Specialty B Sales
Splendor Fiberglass
Stamp Works
Standard Cement Materials, Inc.
Standard Equipment Company
Statewide Supply
StoneAge, Inc.
Strike Products
Sturgeon Tank & Equipment
Stutes Enterprises Systems
Subsurface Instruments
Sugino Corp.
Sunbelt Rentals
Super Products LLC
Superior Signal Company LLC
Supervac 2000
Surco Portable Sanitation Products
Surpresseur 4S Inc.
SVE Portable Roadway Systems, Inc.
T & T Tools, Inc.
t4 Spatial
Tank Track LLC
Tank Transport Trader
TankTec
TCF Equipment Finance
Terydon Inc.
The Strong Company
Thieman Tailgates, Inc.
Thompson Pump
Titan Logix Corp.
Topp Industries, Inc.
Trade-Serve
Trans Lease, Inc.
Transway Systems Inc.
Trelleborg Pipe Seals
Trenchless Solutions Inc.
TRIC Tools Inc.
Trillium Industrial Services
TRY TEK Machine Works, Inc.
TSF Co. Inc.
Tsurumi Pump
TT Technologies Inc.
Tuf-Tite Inc.
Turbo-Fog, Division of Kingscote Chemicals
Turtle Plastics
U.E.M.S.I.
Udor USA
UHRIG Kanaltechnik GmbH
Ultra Shore
UltraLav by Wells Cargo
Uncle Freddie’s Super Gloves
Under Pressure Systems, Inc.
US Fleet Tracking
US Jetting, LLC
USA BlueBook
USB-Sewer Equipment Corporation
VAC2GO
Vacall
Vac-Con Inc.
Vacutrux Limited
Vacuum Sales, Inc.
Vacuum Truck Rental
Vacuum Trucks of Canada
Vaporooter
VAR Co.
Vermeer
Veyance Technologies, Inc.
Vivax-Metrotech Corp.
Vogelsang
VT Hackney
Vu-Rite Video Inspection Systems, LLC
W.W. Williams
Wachs Utility Products
Wager Company Inc.
Walex Products Company, Inc.
Wallenstein Vacuum Pumps Elmira Machine Industries
Wastequip
WasteWater Education 501(c)3
Water Environment Federation
Waterblasting Technologies
WC Leasing
Weber Industries, Inc. (Webtrol)
Wee Engineer Inc.
Wells Fargo Equipment Finance
Western Equipment Finance
Western Mule Cranes (D & S Sales)
Westmoor Ltd.
Whirlygig, Inc.
Wiedemann & Reichhardt GmbH
Wieser Concrete Products, Inc.
Wohler USA
Zhejiang Danau Industries Ltd.
Zoeller Pump Company
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World Health Organization
talk slated for WWETT Show
The threat of communicable diseases is real for everyone who handles or comes in contact with wastewater. Understanding the risks
and taking the necessary precautions is the key to protecting yourself.
Since the ebola virus outbreak in West Africa made headlines, many
in the wastewater industry have asked about the potential for a variety
of communicable diseases to spread through contact with human
waste during the cleaning, maintenance and repair of sanitary drain
and sewer lines.
Those questions will be answered at the 2015 Water & Wastewater
Equipment, Treatment & Transport Show. Dr. Adrianus Vlugman,
World Health Organization senior advisor on water, sanitation and
environmental health, will speak Feb. 26 at 1 p.m. in Rooms 133-135
at the Indiana Convention Center as part of an extensive series of
WWETT Show speakers and seminars.
Vlugman will provide a general overview covering the survival and
life expectancy of communicable diseases in water and wastewater.
Among other topics, he will cover:
• Safety precautions to consider when handling water and wastewater.
• The likelihood of communicable diseases to be spread or passed
through both centralized wastewater plants and decentralized
onsite wastewater systems.
• Whether there is a concern for the spread of communicable
diseases through land application of properly treated sewage,
biosolids or septage.
The talk on the transfer of communicable diseases is free and open
to anyone.
If you would like to attend the WHO program,
fill out the online registration form at
www.wwettshow.com/who.
Water & Wastewater Equipment, Treatment & Transport (WWETT) Show
Feb. 23-26, 2015 | Indiana Convention Center, Indianapolis
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IT’S TIME
TO TALK
Focused conversations can foster a workplace filled with engaged
and motivated employees who are less prone to jump ship
By Ken Wysocky
D
We invite readers to offer
ideas for this regular column,
designed to help municipal and
utility managers deal with day-today people issues like motivation,
team building, recognition and
interpersonal relationships.
Feel free to share your secrets
for building and maintaining a
cohesive, productive team. Or
ask a question about a specific
issue on which you would like
advice. Call editor Luke Laggis
at 800/257-7222, or email
[email protected].
Smith suggests something very simple: a conversation — five of them, to be
isengaged employees are a lot like clogged sewer lines: They don’t work
exact. And we’re not talking about small talk around the water cooler or
very well. And if national surveys are correct, your workforce probably
an office cubicle. Instead, managers should engage their direct reports in
needs a powerful bit of waterjetting, metaphorically speaking.
Before you launch into an impassioned hey-my-workforce-isn’t-like-that
periodic discussions in five different areas during the course of a year.
protest, let’s consider the facts as outlined by a recent Gallup poll: Only 30
“The answer to the question of how you engage disengaged employees
percent of employees in the United States are engaged at work, meaning
is communication,” Seeling Smith asserts. “Most managers don’t sit down
they’re committed to their jobs and are positively contributing to the orgaand talk enough to their staffs. And if they do, they often don’t know what
nizations for which they work.
to talk about.”
That leaves 70 percent of employees disengaged. Even worse, the survey
For managers who fall into that category, here are five things Seeling
shows 18 percent of them are what’s known as actively disengaged, which is
Smith suggests you FOCUS on:
the equivalent of a fully clogged line as compared to a partially blocked pipe.
1. Feedback. One of the most effective things managers can do to motiActively disengaged employees are defined as unhappy and unproductive —
vate employees is also the simplest: provide positive feedback — simply give
and they’re most likely spreading negpraise where praise is due. But avoid
“A lot of the practices, polices and procedures — the generic blanket statements like, “Great
ativity to co-workers like a bad flu virus.
Equally disturbing is the estimated
job on that mainline-cleaning project.”
very cultures of organizations — are built around
cost of all this disengagement: $450 to
Instead, Seeling Smith suggests that
policies developed during the Industrial Revolution.
$550 billion worth of lost productivity.
you specifically cite details in their perWe hire people for their innovation skills, then treat
Yup, you read that correctly; that’s “b”
formance that specifically contributed
them like they’re making widgets on a factory floor.”
as in “billions.” And if that isn’t enough
to the project’s success.
to make you sit up and take notice, con“Truly effective praise needs to be
– Kim Seeling Smith
sider another ominous cloud on the
specific enough that employees can
horizon: a workforce that’s rapidly shrinking as Baby Boomers retire, and
model that behavior in the future,” she says. “It really makes a ton of differmuch fewer Gen X and Gen Y cohorts available to take their places. In other
ence because it engages the employees’ brains and gives them specific things
words, competition to hire great employees in the next 10 to 15 years will rise
to hone in on. If you’re not specific, employees might think you’re praisto unprecedented levels.
ing them for something you’re not actually praising them for.”
“So we have a perfect storm of issues in play — low employee engage2. Objectives. Annual goal setting that’s developed with employee input
ment and a horrendously high threat of a global labor shortage,” says Kim
is a valuable engagement kick-starter because it tells employees exactly what
Seeling Smith, the founder and chief executive officer of Ignite Global
they need to do to be successful as well as how their success will be mea(www.igniteglobal.com), a management consulting firm. Seeling Smith is
sured. It also gives employees a sense of where they fit into an organization
also an expert in improving employee engagement and productivity, as well
and why their job is important, says Seeling Smith.
as the author of “Mind Reading for Managers: 5 FOCUSed Conversations to
“But true objectives shouldn’t be tasks, they should be outcomes,” she
Increase Employee Engagement and Productivity.”
notes. As an example, she cites a receptionist who’s given job objectives
“And if you won’t be able to hire the ones you need, you’ve got to love
such as answer calls at a switchboard and greet office visitors. “That doesn’t
the ones you’re with,” she continues. “Human capital has indeed become the
tell her anything about how to be successful,” she points out. Instead, tell
most valuable capital to organizations, and companies that don’t understand
the receptionist things such as how you want the phone to be answered,
this – and don’t make changes to engage and retain their employees — will
within how many minutes guests should be greeted and within how many
suffer dramatic hits to market share. It might even be their death knell.”
rings phone calls should be answered. “That gives the employee something
tangible with which to measure their performance and makes them feel
Start the conversation
more important, too,” Seeling Smith observes.
So how do managers begin to get listless employees motivated? Seeling
3. Career development. More than ever before, employees want to know
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the path they need to take to advance within an organization. “It’s now the
No. 1 or 2 concern for employees,” Seeling Smith notes. “People want to
know how they can learn, grow and develop in a career.” Another factor
that has changed: how career development is defined.
“Conventional wisdom says that development must be vertical, but that’s
not true in the social age we live in, where not everyone is interested in
climbing the corporate ladder,” she explains. The
bottom line? Don’t think about career development
as a succession of jobs that leads to a specific goal
or destination, mainly because things change so fast
these days.
“Instead, think of career development as a collection of experiences designed to equip employees
for a future role or that helps them grow and develop
professionally,” she suggests.
Too many managers avoid the career development conversation because they typically have small
staffs. And if a manager has no plans to retire soon,
they don’t see any benefit in talking about career
paths because opportunities seem limited. But using
this different paradigm, which focuses on experiences
rather than promotions, gives managers more options.
“And having that discussion, in turn, engenders
employee trust and loyalty,” Seeling Smith adds. “So
they’ll work for you longer than they normally would.”
4. Underlying motivators. Managers also should
talk to employees about what motivates them to stay
engaged and go the extra yard. For example, ask them
how they prefer to receive recognition. It might sound
like a minor thing, but it’s not, Seeling Smith notes.
“The old adage about praising in public and
counseling in private is not always the best
approach,” she says. “Some people don’t like to be
praised in public.”
Most managers would be shocked at what really
motivates employees to work at peak performance.
It may sound counterintuitive, but studies have shown
that many employees value things like autonomy,
flexible work hours, work/life balance, setting and
achieving goals, and intellectual challenges much
greater than more money and bonuses.
“Ask most managers what motivates employees
and they’ll tell you it’s all about the money,” she
points out. “But that’s actually so far down the scale
it’s not even funny.”
5. Strengths. After working with employees to
analyze and understand their strengths, managers
can increase engagement by incrementally shifting
employees’ job responsibilities so they spend more
time playing to those strengths rather than trying to
shore up weaknesses, Seeling Smith says.
“The reality is that most people are good at doing
some things and bad at doing others,” she explains.
“It’s better if you allow them to concentrate on what
they do well and mitigate their weaknesses. I’m not talk-
ing about making wholesale changes to their jobs, but rather just changing their
focus for a few hours a week.”
Conventional wisdom holds that working to improve weaknesses is a good
technique for improving job performance. But in fact, some studies show
that people who are already great at something can get exponentially better
(continued)
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by working on improving that skill, while similar efforts aimed at improving
weaker skills don’t yield the same dramatic improvements, she says.
It’s not rocket science
Why don’t managers already hold these kinds of conversations with
employees? After all, it’s not rocket science, right? Seeling Smith agrees it’s
not, but notes that most people are promoted to managerial positions because
of their experience/seniority and technical skills, but don’t receive any
training about what it takes to be a great manager.
“We still use industrial-age practices to hire and manage social-age employees,” she explains. “A lot of the practices, polices and procedures — the
very cultures of organizations — are built around policies developed during the Industrial Revolution. We hire people for their innovation skills,
then treat them like they’re making widgets on a factory floor. In other
words, the very policies and practices that many organizations have established are diametrically opposed to engaging and facilitating the type of
work we need from our employees.”
So go ahead and start having some conversations with your employees.
Even if it feels uncomfortable at first, the benefits that await — engaged,
motivated and loyal employees who work as smoothly as a freshly cleaned
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FOCUS: STORM
Virginia Beach Wastewater
Collections Bureau workers Surjell
Brickhouse (left) and Marcus Scott
set up their Vac-Con combination
truck to clean a sewer main in a
residential area of Virginia Beach.
(Photography by Lee Poe)
NO MORE WAITING
Proactive approach to operation and maintenance helps
Virginia Beach cut overflows and blockages in its huge, aging system
By Erik Gunn
T
welve years ago the City of
Virginia Beach got a wakeup call.
Its name was Hurricane Isabel.
The 2003 storm was the worst in
recent memory and led to severe
power outages, according to Tom
Leahy, Virginia Beach director of
public utilities.
The power loss didn’t just turn
out the lights and shut off refrigerators. It severely hampered the city’s
sanitary sewer system.
With more than 10 percent of
the city’s sanitary sewer collections
system consisting of force mains, Virginia Beach relies on an extensive
collection of pumping stations to
move its sewer flows. When Isabel
hit, only 15 of the 390 sewer pumping stations had built-in generators.
The utilities department realized
“that we were going to have to spend
a lot more money adding genera-
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tors to these sewer pump stations.”
The experience helped Virginia
Beach turn around its sewer system
operations and maintenance practices — moving from a reactive
approach to a proactive one.
The aftermath of the hurricane
wasn’t the only reason for the change
in direction. And Leahy emphasizes
it’s still a work in progress.
“Our goal is a sustainable operation in which we’re able to keep up
with the aging of the system,” Leahy
says. “We’re not quite there yet.”
SSOs and blockages
For several decades, Virginia
Beach grew rapidly — first with the
merger of Princess Anne County
and the Town of Virginia Beach, and
then as the local population soared.
As the city grew, so did its sanitary
sewer system — mostly through new
development, but also with the
extension of public sanitary sewer
systems into neighborhoods that
had lacked the service and by
acquiring old, failing private systems
within the city’s boundaries.
Then the growth tapered off and
the population leveled off. The city
is currently home to about 440,000
people. By the turn of the millennium, says Leahy, “We came to realize that a lot of the infrastructure
built by developers and deeded over
to the city was now getting old — it
was wearing out.”
A major symptom of problems
was an increasing number of sewer
system blockages and sanitary sewer
overflows. “Our blockages and SSOs
were increasing every single year,”
Leahy says. “My predecessor, Clarence Warnstaff, consulted with Jim
Sarver, manager of the operations
division, and they initiated a cleaning program.”
(continued)
PROFILE:
Virginia Beach (Va.)
Public Utilities,
Wastewater
Collections Bureau
POPULATION SERVED:
440,000
SERVICE AREA:
City of Virginia Beach, Va.
FLOWS:
49.6 mgd average;
78 mgd design
INFRASTRUCTURE:
131,996 connections; 1,500
miles of gravity mains; 180
miles of force mains; 408
pump stations
WEBSITE:
www.vbgov.com/government/
departments/public-utilities
Meanwhile, the federal EPA proposed Capacity, Management, Operation and Maintenance (CMOM)
standards in 2001. Although the federal government never formally
implemented those standards, Virginia Beach officials thought they
made a lot of sense, Leahy says. “We
started working toward implementing the spirit of those.”
Then came the hurricane.
Immediately after Isabel, 90 percent
of the sewer pumping stations had
no power. Five days after the storm,
more than 30 percent of the 390 stations were still without power.
“For 30 years before that, the longest power outages the city had suffered [during a hurricane] was for a
day or two,” says Leahy. “It was nothing like we had ever dealt with before.”
Pump up the volume
The system consists of 1,500
miles of gravity sanitary sewer mains
and 180 miles of sewer force mains.
Virginia Beach has added 18
pump stations since Isabel, bringing the utility’s total to 408. But with
an average age of 30 years across
the system, many of its stations are
more than 40 years old, dating back
to the 1960s and ’70s, the city’s big
growth period.
Each station is a fairly complex
Virginia Beach crew members
(from left) Norm Doyle, Duane
Gilchrist and Daniel Lane set up
an emergency generator at one
of the city’s 408 pump stations.
“We’ve put a lot of resources into
our sewer pumping stations —
rebuilding and rehabbing them,
cleaning them on a regular basis,”
Lane says.
Scheduled maintenance
The capital budget increase was
part of a broader program begun
in 2007. That year the Hampton
Roads Sanitary District, which
treats the region’s sanitary sewage,
signed a consent order with the
EPA. The 14 communities sending flows to the district, including
Virginia Beach, signed as well,
agreeing to increase capital invest-
“We’ve put a lot of resources into our sewer pumping
stations — rebuilding and rehabbing them, cleaning
them on a regular basis.”
The Virginia Beach force main
crew backfills a trench after
installing a new insert valve on a
force main. The valves are
installed while lines are still
under pressure.
– Daniel Lane
electrical and mechanical facility,
and they all require regular
maintenance.
After cleaning up from Isabel,
the sewer utility began stocking up
on generators, both permanently
installed and portable units, says
Daniel Lane, utility mechanic supervisor in the city’s Sanitary Sewer
Pumping Station Bureau.
The utility also undertook a project to upgrade the pump stations
— part of a larger series of capital
projects that began seven years ago.
As stations are replaced or rebuilt,
dry well stations are being converted
to submersible stations, which cost
less, Leahy explains.
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ment and improve maintenance.
Virginia Beach, assisted by a consultant and guided by the CMOM
standards, implemented a systematic approach to inspection and
maintenance, explains Daren Williams, public utilities operations and
maintenance engineer.
Adding up all the assets in the
system — valves, air vents, pumps
and so on — the utility established
how often and over what period of
time it would operate each asset.
“For valves, we assumed that we
would operate all valves within a
year,” Williams says. “For manual air
vents, we decided to operate all vents
within the system in five years.”
(continued)
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With a sanitary sewer system that has more than 10 percent force
mains powered by hundreds of pump stations, Virginia Beach, Va., has had
to find new approaches to some problems.
For instance, valve replacement can be a challenge. Installing a new
valve in a sewer line normally requires shutting down the line while the
repair is completed.
But Virginia Beach has been using insert valve technology. “That’s a
very, very neat tool to use,” says Elijah Smith, assistant superintendent for
the city’s Wastewater Collections Bureau. “We don’t have to shut down
the pump station and we don’t have to shut down the line. You put the
line in with everything still under pressure.”
Tom Leahy, director of public utilities, says the city’s approach to valve
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The Virginia Beach Public Utilities team includes (from left)
Director Tom Leahy, Operations Manager Jim Sarver, and
engineers Daren Williams and Bradley M. Law.
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Working from those numbers,
the utility then calculated monthly
and annual goals to keep it on track
with exercising every asset within the
time allotted.
Utility employees reviewed the
history of sewer pipe structural
defects, such as bellies and insufficient grades, that would lead to blockages. They viewed CCTV videos to
further analyze the causes of SSOs.
Their findings helped establish a
cleaning cycle, which then set the
pace for monthly cleaning goals for
gravity sewer mains in the Virginia
Beach Hot Spot cleaning program.
“After a few years of operating
and maintaining the system with preventive maintenance goals, we realized that we responded to fewer
emergencies,” says Williams. Other
aspects of the system were added to
the program, such as cleaning vacuum collection tanks at least twice
a year in parts of the community
with heavy tourist traffic.
Force mains 4 inches or less in
diameter that send flows to gravity
sewer manholes are flushed every
three months — once a quarter —
as part of a bypass pumping program implemented to reduce
emergency repairs. Previously, he
explains, pumps frequently had to
be repaired or replaced in lift sta-
tions with small force mains, or the
mains had to be cut open and
cleaned due to clogging.
Similar goals were set for other
aspects of maintenance, such as
replacing backup batteries at sewer
pump stations every five years. The
goal for cleaning gravity mains is
65,000 to 75,000 feet per month.
The goals were fed into the utility’s computer maintenance management system, which generates
monthly work orders that are distributed to superintendents. As work
orders are completed, superintendents review them to help keep the
system accountable, Williams says. In
its annual report, the utility logs the
number of lateral repairs, main
repairs and pump station repairs for
the year; all that data is reported
annually to the Virginia Department
of Environmental Quality.
Inspection, cleaning,
repair and replacement
But probably the biggest single
change was in how the city deployed
manpower.
“We used to have 10 repair crews,”
says Elijah Smith, assistant superintendent for the Wastewater Collections Bureau. “What we decided to
do was focus more on finding and
fixing [problems].”
Virginia Beach reorganized the crews into
maintenance crews. Each crew of two people is
assigned to a Vacall sewer-cleaning truck. The city
has five trucks as well as three dedicated videoinspection trucks.
Now as inspections uncover bottlenecks in
the lines, crews will clean them out immediately
if they can without much trouble. “We don’t wait
until we have major problems,” Smith says.
The utility’s annual cleaning goal calls for
covering about 1 million feet per year, about 10
percent of the system. “It’s had a tremendous
reduction in our SSOs and in our stoppages,”
Leahy says.
“We’ve gone from almost no compliance to twothirds compliance.”
Dramatic results
Between the capital investment, the find-andfix policy, the grease-reduction program, root control and regularly scheduled cleaning, “it’s had
a phenomenal improvement on both our overflows and our sewer blockages,” Leahy says. It’s
hard to say which gets the most credit, he adds.
“They’re all contributing at the same time.”
“Find and fix” is more expensive in the short
term, he observes, but it also helps prevent bigger problems. “I can’t argue with the results. Our
SSOs have really plummeted.”
SSOs were once in the neighborhood of 200
a year. “These days we are always under 20,” Leahy
says. And in 2013, the number was a mere dozen.
“We’ve dropped down to less than one SSO per
100 miles of line.” F
Attention to cause
The reorganization has enabled crews to take
a closer look at causes of particular problems.
“It used to be if someone responded to a blockage and cleared the lateral and there was grease
there, it was just reported as a grease blockage,”
Leahy says. And if the real cause was some other
defect, it might go undetected, requiring a return
trip when the problem recurred.
The practice now is to televise the problem
line as the first step so crews can be sure of what
the real source of the blockage or other problem
is. “Now the philosophy is to get in there, fix it
and never have to come back to this address
again,” Leahy says.
At the same time, every call becomes an opportunity to look for more problems. “Every time we
have a blockage or SSO, we go out and TV the
line upstream and downstream of the area,” Leahy
says. Any defects encountered are slated for repair
or replacement as soon as possible — even if they
weren’t responsible for the problem that led to
the call in the first place.
Virginia Beach has also stepped up enforcement of existing regulations requiring food service establishments to pretreat their wastewater,
instituting a program of inspections to confirm
they are following the rules and are properly maintaining their grease traps. From less than 5 percent compliance when the program started, “now
we’re in the 60 to 79 percent range,” Leahy says.
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ASSCO is proud to announce
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Osborn steps into this role with a
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As the senior applications manager
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The Triple Tap tapping sleeve from Total Piping Solutions is available in a low- or high-range shell before fitting on the pipe. The low range
shell typically covers IPS through AC Class 150, and the high range shell
DIP through AC Class 200. It has Type 304 stainless steel construction with
no-gall stainless steel bolts. The gasket is an NSF 61 registered NBR compound for water or sewage. It is available in diameters from 4 through 16
inches, meets AWWA C223-13 for tapping sleeves, and carries a pressure
rating up to 250 psi with test to 350 psi. 716/372-0160; www.tps.us.
Asahi/America Poly-Flo
The Poly-Flo co-extruded double-containment piping system from Asahi/
America is available in black PE and euro grey PP-R. It is ideal for installations
with space constraints and systems where thermal expansion and contraction
are present. The system includes full pressure, drainage and machined fittings. This SDR-designed system is available in 1 by 1 1/2-, 2 by 3- and 4 by
6-inch sizes, and operates up to 150 psi at 68 degrees F. Black PE is suited for
outside, above-ground applications because of its UV resistance, and it performs well in underground installations because of its resistance to crack propagation. Euro grey PP-R is ideal for applications running at higher temperatures
due to its high pressure rating. The system is available with manual and lowpoint leak detection sensors. 800/343-3618; www.asahi-america.com.
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5 Environment One Corporation iota OneBox
The iota OneBox telemetry system from Environment One Corporation enables control of a fleet of pressure sewer grinder pumps from an
office desktop or a smartphone. It seamlessly integrates into SCADA networks to provide information on tank storage capacities, power failures,
blockages and faults. Diagnostics for individual properties, streets or whole
networks are available in real time. It enables remote control and monitoring of individual grinder pumps; alerts even before the customer becomes
aware of any faults; trend analysis, report generation and peak flow demand
determinations; and flow smoothing and maximized efficiency of downstream infrastructure. 518/579-3068; www.eone.com.
Underground Solutions fusible PVC pipe
Fusible PVC pipe products from Underground Solutions are available in diameters from 4 to 36 inches, including fusible C-900, fusible C-905
and FPVC. They produce a fused monolithic, fully restrained, gasket-free,
leak-free piping system ideal for trenchless (horizontal directional drilling,
pipe bursting and sliplining) or conventional open-cut installations. The
combination of standard fittings as well as less weight and more flow for a
given pressure class make it ideal for most pipeline projects. 858/679-9551;
www.undergroundsolutions.com.
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PIPE PARTS/FITTINGS
The Level View controller from PRIMEX controls two or three constant or variable-speed pumps for pump up (water) and pump down (wastewater) applications. Its color touch screen can be easily read in direct sunlight
and provides on/off level control, speed control, pump alternation, flow monitoring, data logging, alarm logging and historical trending. An SD card provides data storage and download capability. Connectivity options provide flexibility
for SCADA/BAC integration, as well as a plug-and-play interface to the Pump
Watch Web-based monitoring system. 844/477-4639; www.primexcontrols.com.
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3Ford Meter Box Handlebolt
The Handlebolt from Ford Meter Box doubles as a handle, conveniently attaching to the end of the starter bolt to assist with installation and handling by providing leverage when pulling the clamp together.
It is available on the company’s F style repair clamps. 800/826-3487;
www.fordmeterbox.com.
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7 RELINER/Duran Inside Drop
Inside Drops from RELINER/Duran extend pump life in lift stations
by preventing aerated influent from being directly drawn into the pumps, causing cavitation. The drop pipe should always be extended below the low limit
level and cut to follow the slope of the base fillet. If there is no fillet, cut the
pipe at 45 degrees, and maintain a distance from the floor or fillet of one pipe
diameter. This creates a diffuser by directing the flow back against the structure, de-aerating the influent. Do not direct the incoming flow toward the
pumps. This arrangement is easy to maintain, as there is nothing to collect rags
and debris. It can be cleaned from above. 800/508-6001; www.reliner.com.
8 Smith Flow Control USA EasiDrive
The EasiDrive portable valve actuator from Smith Flow Control USA
allows for valves to be operated without dedicated valve actuators. One person can efficiently drive multiple valves with a single tool, reducing fatigue
and injury risk and saving cost and time. Its reaction kit prevents torque kickback, ensuring valve movement is always fully controlled and preventing operator injury and fatigue. The variable torque output feature, which prevents
excessive torque being applied, ensures proper and safe valve operation. No
permanent power supply is required, and it is suitable for all climates. It has
wide-band torque capability with variable torque adjustment. It can be powered by air, electricity or battery. 859/578-2395; www.smithflowcontrol.com.
PUMPS
9 Flygt Experior
The Experior wastewater pumping system from Flygt – a Xylem
Brand has self-cleaning Flygt N-technology that ensures efficient pumping.
Its Adaptive N-hydraulics allow the impeller to move axially upward when
necessary to permit bulky or tough debris to pass through, reducing stress
on the shaft, seals and bearings. It has a preprogrammed SmartRun pump
control unit that provides the benefits of variable-speed pumping. Its premium-efficiency motor is small and light, yet durable, with a long bearing
and motor lifetime. 704/409-9700; www.flygtus.com.
10 Franklin Electric FPS NC Series
Submersible centrifugal FPS NC Series non-clog pumps from Franklin Electric are available in 3- and 4-inch 125 ANSI flange discharge connections,
in 3, 5, 7.5 and 10 hp models with heads up to 66 feet and flows up to 610 gpm.
They can pass up to 3-inch solids, retrofit to any standard rail system and contain replaceable internal components. Ductile iron casted impellers provide
added corrosion resistance and handle rigid debris. A Fluoroelastomer motor
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11 Giant Industries GP5100
For applications that have limited space, the GP5100 series compact-design industrial triplex plunger pump from Giant Industries is rated
up to 4,000 psi and up to 43 gpm. It comes with an SAE-C four-bolt mount
and a hollow shaft, which will accept standard hydraulic motors. It is constructed with a nickel-plated spheroidal cast iron crankcase; drop-forged,
through-hardened, ground and polished crankshaft; bronze connecting
rods; sight glass; vented dipstick; hardened, ground and polished stainless
steel plunger bases; solid ceramic plungers; nitrile seals with fabric reinforcing; stainless steel valves; and nickel-plated spheroidal cast iron manifold.
800/633-4565; www.giantpumps.com.
12 Gorman-Rupp Company ReliaPrime
The ReliaPrime emergency bypass station from Gorman-Rupp
Company has a 6-inch Super T Series pump capable of passing 3-inch spherical solids. A soundproof, lightweight aluminum enclosure has lockable
door panels that can be removed for maintenance. The unit is a complete
backup package, ready for hookup. 419/755-1011; www.grpumps.com.
13 Goulds Water Technology Series e-SV
The Series e-SV stainless steel vertical multistage pump by Goulds
Water Technology - a Xylem brand is offered in 11 models with flow rates
of up to 800 gpm and heads up to 1,150 feet. It has standard NEMA meters
that support 0.5 to 75 hp and have a temperature range of -20 to 250 degrees
F. The design is easy to maintain and enables the removal of the mechanical seal without having to detach the motor, reducing repair time by up to
50 percent. 866/325-4210; www.goulds.com.
14 Hammelmann Corp. HDP-196
The HDP-196 sewer pump from Hammelmann Corp. has flows
up to 160 gpm and pressures of 3,200 psi. It has a compact footprint and
integral reduction gear, and is available in horizontal or vertical models
with a reversible pump head, central or side suction connection, discharge
connections on both sides, left- or right-hand driveshaft, and operation at
any angle. The water end is suitable for recycled water with high-grade solid
ceramic plungers, wear-resistant valve seats, low flow velocity over suction
and discharge valves, packing seal sets within rust-resistant stainless steel
sleeves, a slow plunger speed, pressurized oil lubrication system, and clockwise or counterclockwise rotation. It offers easy servicing with reversible
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enclosure sealing system improves chemical and temperature resistance, while
a double-row ball lower bearing offers ideal loading and wear characteristics. It
has a field-adjustable wear plate. 800/701-7894; www.franklinengineered.com.
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valve seats, suction and discharge valves that use identical components,
maintenance without removal of suction and pressure lines, service access
at the front and above the unit, and fixed valve housing accessible via lightweight cover plates. 800/783-4935; www.hammelmann.com.
15 InviziQ Pressure Sewer System
The InviziQ Pressure Sewer System utilizes grinding and pumping to move sewage to treatment facilities, no matter the terrain, slope, environmental sensitivity of the area or complex topography of the region. It
has a dry well design that delivers clean access to the system motor and
other working parts, increasing safety for contractors. Network monitoring
and control is built into every system and gives users a host of diagnostic
resources for system management. 281/854-0300; www.inviziq.com.
16 Liberty Pumps LSG-Series Omnivore
The LSG-Series Omnivore grinder pump from Liberty Pumps
has V-Slice cutter technology with a hardened stainless steel cutting system
that aggressively shreds jeans, shop rags, sanitary napkins and other difficult solids into fine slurry with little jamming. It has a one-piece cast iron
body, quick-disconnect power cord, stainless steel impeller and dual-shaft
seals. Complete predesigned grinder systems are available in a variety of
basin sizes. 800/543-2550; www.libertypumps.com.
17 Moyno EZstrip Transfer Pump
The EZstrip Transfer Pump from Moyno provides a quick and
easy way to disassemble, de-rag and maintain a PC pump in place. It offers
direct access to the wear parts and rotating assemblies without affecting the
operational parameters. Its full drive train, including the rotor, stator, shaft,
rod and seal, can be removed in minutes with no electrical disconnection
required. Suction and discharge ports remain connected to the pipe work,
eliminating dismantling lengths. Low running speeds reduce wear for a
long working pump life. It requires only a wrench and an Allen key to maintain. 877/486-6966; www.moyno.com.
18 Vertiflo Pump Co. 1600
The 1600 vortex close-coupled horizontal-end suction pump from
Vertiflo Pump Co. is available in cast iron, 316 stainless steel fitted, all 316
stainless steel, Alloy 20 and CD4MCu. Capacities range up to 1,600 gpm,
heads of 170 feet tdh and temperatures of 250 degrees F. It has back-pullout construction, a fully recessed vortex impeller and external impeller
adjustment. 513/530-0888; www.vertiflopump.com.
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VALVES
19 APCO ASU Combination Air Valve
DeZURIK APCO ASU Combination Air Valve from DeZURIK Water
Controls are single-body combination valves with an air release and air/vacuum mechanism to deal with media containing grit, solids and grease. They
provide varied and predictable airflow over a wide range of air release conditions. A large diameter air/vacuum disc provides high-volume airflow for rapid
venting during pipeline filling and allows high volumes of air to enter the
pipeline during draining. During normal pipeline flow conditions, the dualrange air release prevents air buildup and resultant flow restrictions under
changing conditions and through the full flow range. It is available in 1- to
4-inch sizes with all stainless steel construction and meets the performance
requirements of AWWA C512 standard. 320/259-2000; www.dezurik.com.
20 Mainline Backflow Products STRAIGHT-FIT
STRAIGHT-FIT valves from Mainline Backflow Products come in
3-, 4- and 6-inch sizes and are available in both PVC and ABS. They have a body
that is extendible to whatever depth required. The gate can be extended for
easy extraction as well. They have a Smart CURVE gate designed to allow a sewer
snake to feed and retract without catching on the gate itself. A cleat insert in
the body eases the feeding and retrieval of a snake without hanging up, reducing excessive wear on the body. An optional test gate can be used to pressure
test the system or isolate the property. 877/734-8691; www.backwatervalve.com.
21 Mueller Co. Gate Valve
The A-2361 all-ductile-iron-resilient wedge gate valve from
Mueller Co. operates at a working pressure of 350 psi. It is available in sizes
from 4 to 12 inches and has dual-purpose lifting lugs, a T-head bolt retention
design and pressure-assist wedge geometry. It is triple listed — meeting AWWA’s
C515 standards, UL listed, and FM approved. Lifting lugs provide alignment
for the valve box and accommodate straps or hooks. A nesting area for T-head
bolts on MJ connections prevents rotation during pipe installation. The pressure-assisted wedge design requires the same torque to seal at 350 psi as current valves do at 250 psi. 800/423-1323; www.muellercompany.com.
22 Red Valve Co. Type A Pinch Valve
The Type A Pinch Valve from Red Valve Co. / Tideflex Technologies has a full-port opening and straight-through flow path to eliminate turbulence when open. The two-piece body acts as a built-in pneumatic
actuator. Fabricated elastomer sleeves offer wear resistance and sealing on
entrapped debris. Double-wall and cone sleeves are available for abrasive
and high-pressure applications. 412/279-0044; www.redvalve.com.
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Series 365 AWWA Vic-Plug grooved-end eccentric plug valves from
Victaulic are designed to ANSI/AWWA standards. The body conforms to AWWA
C-509 standard end-to-end dimensions, while the grooved ends conform to
ANSI/AWWA C-606 rigid groove specifications. The valve is installed quickly
and easily with Style 31 couplings, Style 307 transition couplings or in combination with Style 341 Vic-Flange adapters. It ensures bubble-tight sealing up
to 175 psi as the plug cams into the seat. Bidirectional sealing to 25 psi is standard; full bidirectional sealing to 175 psi is also available. Self-lubricated stainless steel bearings with protective o-rings resist corrosion to prevent binding
and prolong valve life. They have adjustable chevron packing, multiple types
of manual operators, and a variety of body and plug coatings to meet specific
service requirements. They are available in 3- to 12-inch sizes. 610/559-3300;
www.victaulic.com. F
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JETTERS & JET VACS
Sewer Hose Guides
Aluminum
Grease
Penetrators
1/4"-15°..........$24.00
3/8"-15°..........$33.00
1/2"-25°..........$46.00
1/2"-25°LT ......$49.00
3/4"-12°..........$59.00
3/4"-12°LT ......$69.00
1"-12°.............$72.00
1"-12°LT .........$84.00
3/4" or 1"-17° .......$125.00
Truder
3/4" or 1"-17° .......$350.00
Shark
Aluminum Sand
3/4"-24°................$141.00
1"-17°/24° ............$156.00
1"-24°...................$141.00
Swivel
Joints
T-M® Style
90° or Straight, 6000 psi
3/4" & 1" ...............$198.00
1-1/4" ...................$210.00
1-1/2" ...................$560.00
2"..........................$807.00
1/8" ......................$37.00
1/4" ......................$41.00
3/8" ......................$45.00
1/2" ......................$57.00
3/4" ......................$91.00
1"....................... $116.00
Ball
Valves
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Style
3000 psi
1"..........................$227.00
TigerTail™ Style
3" x 36" .................$38.00
2" x 36" .................$38.00
Radial Bullet
Root Cutter
Assemblies
3/4"-18° or 35°.....$50.00
3/4"-18°/24° .........$53.00
1"-18° or 30°........$69.00
1"-15° or 30°........$69.00
1-1/4"-18 or 35° ...$85.00
1"-12°...................$73.00
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1-1/4" 2-way.........$226.00
4500 psi
3/8" 3-way ............$115.00
1/2" 3-way ............$160.00
3/4" 3-way ............$180.00
1" 3-way ...............$190.00
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w/flat blades................$1125.00
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CASE STUDIES
PIPELINE AND INFRASTRUCTURE
By Craig Mandli
Steel-reinforced polyethylene pipe used for
limited-space sewer and water main replacement
Problem:
Located in the suburbs of Fort Worth, Texas, the Lochwood Court residential housing community required replacing a water main and storm
sewer system located between houses, where spacing is tight.
Solution:
Wade Trim Inc. specified that DuroMaxx steel-reinforced polyethylene from Contech Engineered Solutions be used, with concrete pipe as
an alternate. The product is lightweight and its long 24-inch joints allow
for a quicker installation of the required 378 LF. The high-performance
15 psi joints provide a watertight joint while the profile provides a small
outer diameter, resulting in less trench excavation. The pipe can be installed
utilizing small equipment.
water outfall that stretched 1,200 feet into the Atlantic Ocean. Due to pressure from above wave action and compact bedding, the 1,300-foot outfall
required a rigid pressure pipeline. Hanson Pressure Pipe supplied 84-inch
E-301 pipe in 20-foot lengths. Burial depths ranged from 6 to 7 feet under
the ocean floor. Pipe bedding and backfill included 3 1/2 to 6 feet of bedding stone, topped with 1 1/2 feet of rip-rap stone and a top layer of 5 to
7 feet of armor stone.
RESULT:
The outfall, along with implementation of best management
practices, significantly improved stormwater quality. 972/262-3600;
www.hansonpressurepipe.com.
RESULT:
Nearby homeowners were satisfied, as the installation was kept to a
constrained site that avoided wrecking landscaping and encroaching
upon surrounding lawns. “The product was delivered on time, easy to
install and is functioning as designed,” says project engineer David
Speicher of Wade Trim Inc. “The use of this product expedited our project construction time and made it much easier to work between two
homes.” 800/338-1122; www.conteches.com.
Deep-water outfall used to improve
stormwater quality
Problem:
The shoreline of North Myrtle Beach, S.C., was being negatively impacted
by four outfalls that were not only an eyesore, but whose discharge led to
beach erosion along with pollutants that, following rain events, created
poor water quality in swimming areas, resulting in an increasing number
of beach advisories.
Solution:
The city decided to combine the existing outfalls into one 84-inch deep-
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Township eliminates cavitation in reservoir with
single-rolling diaphragm control valve
Problem:
Pittsfield Township, Mich., pumps water from a neighboring community to a storage tank that ranges between empty and 16 feet at full, resulting in a pressure drop anywhere between 7 to 70 psi. The existing plug valve
was not able to handle this flow ratio and caused cavitation that destroyed
two reducers.
INSIDE DROP SYSTEM
Solution:
They installed a single-rolling diaphragm actuated control valve with
anticavitation (AC) trim from Singer Valve to eliminate cavitation damage
without sacrificing other valves, changing processes or system dynamics.
The AC control valve contains two heavy stainless steel sliding cages that
maximize the full flow capacity. The first directs and contains the cavitation
recovery, allowing it to dissipate, while the second allows further control to
a level as low as atmospheric pressure downstream. The cages are engineered to meet the flow/pressure differential of the specific application.
RESULT:
The valve operates quietly and smoothly without cavitation. “The
Singer valve is a simple and efficient solution with minimal maintenance,” says Billy Weirich, Pittsfield Township utilities superintendent.
The valve continues to consistently modulate the flow into the tank
without any shutdown, creating consistent water flow. 604/594-5404;
www.singervalve.com.
by RELINER® / Duran Inc.
U.S.Patent 6074130 Canadian Patent 2269565
RELINER Drop Bowl
Drop Bowl
flexible coupling
RELINER Pipe Support
your pipe
RELINER Pipe Support
Drop Bowl with Hood
RELINER Pipe Support
your elbow
HDPE pipe used to replace long water main
Problem:
Fast-growing Lyon Township in Michigan required new potable-water
services. This extension line needed to cross under three wetland areas, a
drainage crossing, and near several residential and commercial areas with
little or no disruption.
Solution:
The township installed 11,307 linear feet of 14-inch SDR 11 high-density polyethylene water main from WL Plastics Corp., along with gate wells
and fire hydrants. The project was installed in a dedicated easement and
within the right-of-ways. Most of the project was horizontally drilled with
transitions to ductile iron through gate wells, hydrant outlets and gate
valve connections.
RESULT:
The piping provided a trouble- and leak-free system that resists corrosion and ground movements. It doesn’t promote biological growth,
so tuberculation effects were nullified and maintenance costs were
reduced. 682/831-2700; www.wlplastics.com. F
Stainless Pipe Support
Drop Bowl & Pipe Supports
Eliminate troublesome outside drops
Reduce maintenance
Simplify inspection
Clean from above
Install quickly
Simply bolts to manhole wall
Stop corrosion
Ideal for wet wells - Increase pump life
Made in the U.S.A.
www.reliner.com
800-508-6001
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Product
Spotlight
Jetter nozzle captures video
from 6- to 10-inch lines
By Ed Wodalski
T
he JetScan Mini video nozzle from Envirosight captures HD video
from 6- to 10-inch sewer lines. Like its big brother, the Mini provides
municipal crews with visual feedback to select appropriate cleaning
tools, troubleshoot backups, identify buried safety hazards and document
successful cleaning.
“It simply connects to the end of a jetter hose and you can run it up a
line,” says Jake Wells, marketing manager for Envirosight. “That’s especially
beneficial in Texas and California where 6-inch lines are more prevalent.”
As with the standard JetScan, the Mini attaches to 3/4- to 1 1/2-inch
hoses and records up to 8 hours of 72p HD MPEG video to an onboard 32
GB memory card, which can be removed for viewing on an iPad or compatible device.
“The nozzle will work off any jetter, whether it’s mounted to a cleaning
truck or a trailer jetter,” Wells says. “It allows you to be more efficient and
judicious with your use of more expensive technology. For example, if there’s
an emergency call about a blockage, a cleaning crew can troubleshoot it
rather than calling a CCTV truck. The camera also travels down the line at
a higher rate of speed than your typical crawler or push camera.”
Twin high-output LED lamps ensure bright, vivid footage, while rechargeable lithium-ion batteries provide up to four hours of continuous
operation.
When paired with the standard JetScan and optional roller arm, crews
have the ability to view lines from 6 to 24 inches in diameter.
“It’s a great tool for helping jetting crews get visual information from
underground without relying on other crews who have other priorities,” Wells
says. “The detachable camera also can be used with either nozzle body.”
The 6-inch video nozzle is available separately or as part of a complete
system. 866/936-8476; www.envirosight.com.
Water Cannon pressure washers
Pressure washers from Water Cannon meet or exceed 2014 EPA and California regulations relating to fuel tanks, vents and carbon canisters. The pressure washers feature low-permeation fuel tanks and fuel lines. Fuel caps vent to
the engine’s air cleaner rather than the atmosphere. Model 17H85 has a Honda
GX 690 electric start engine, 15-gallon fuel tank, roll cage protection and a TSP
General triplex plunger pump that delivers 4 gpm and 7,000 psi. 800/333-9274;
www.watercannon.com.
ClearSpan fabric building structures
Water Cannon 17H85
Pressure Washer
HD Buildings from ClearSpan Fabric Structures are available in gable-, roundstyle, and hybrid designs. They can be mounted as a freestanding structure or
affixed to other foundations. The buildings have a triple-galvanized structural steel
tubing frame and 12.5-ounce high-density polyethylene rip-stop fabric cover. Buildings start at 25 feet wide. 866/643-1010; www.clearspan.com.
ClearSpan Fabric Structures
General Pipe Cleaners
Gen-Eye SDW Monitor
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General Pipe Cleaners inspection system with Wi-Fi
The Gen-Eye SDW video inspection and location system from General
Pipe Cleaners features a Wi-Fi transmitter inside the command module that
sends video to a smartphone or tablet. A free app enables operators to view
and record video inspections from a range of 300 to 500 feet. Older SD systems can be upgraded with the Wi-Fi features. Weighing 12 pounds, the inspection system has a 10.4-inch LCD screen, built-in waterproof keyboard, integral
SD recorder and heavy-duty Pelican case. 800/245-6200; www.drainbrain.com.
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Some things simply outperform others.
Some things grow old gracefully; others not so much. Flowtite® FRP is made to stand the test of time.
It resists corrosion, inside and out. Maintenance-free, it outperforms and outlasts other pipe options.
You can specify Flowtite® FRP for a host of applications, including clean water, gravity and force main, open-cut
or trenchless, sliplining and microtunneling. It’s the versatile, economical choice you’re looking for. Rock on!
Don’t miss “Sliplining,” the latest in our popular Webinar series.
More information and sign-up here: www.ThompsonPipeGroup.com/Sliplining
1-225-658-6166
www.flowtitepipe.com
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Electric Eel D-5 drain-cleaning machine
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Pump Solutions Group
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Pump Solutions Group, manufacturer of pumps, systems and related flowcontrol products, named Karl Buscher
president. He had been president of PSG
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InfoSense receives technology award
InfoSense was a 2014 winner of the Use of Tech in Energy & Environment Award, which recognizes North Carolina companies and individuals
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Southland Tool certified ISO 9001-2008 compliant
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Cornell Pump promoted Ron Aceto to municipal market manager.
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Wastequip named among Best Places to Work
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Pipe Restoration Technologies receives patent
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WORTH NOTING
PEOPLE/AWARDS
EPTDESIGN, a California-based landscape architecture firm with offices
in Pasadena and Irvine, received a 2014 Quality of Life Design Merit Award
from the Southern California Chapter of the American Society of Landscape
Architects for the River Oaks Park project in San Jose. The project is a result
of a private-public partnership between the City of San Jose and the developers of Crescent Village. The 5-acre public park provides important community space for San Jose’s longtime residents and Silicon Valley’s expanding
job market. The project preserves existing mature trees on site, in addition
to featuring an innovative stormwater runoff system that highlights the beauty
and benefit of low-impact design.
The Jayhawk Boulevard Project on the University of Kansas campus received
a 2014 Sustainable Success Story Award from the Mid-America Regional Council. The award highlights projects that advance the three pillars of sustainability — social equity, economic vitality and environmental stewardship. The
Jayhawk Boulevard Project was honored for keeping sustainability in mind
“by improving transit stops, providing green solutions for stormwater management, creating additional places for student interaction and green space,
and reviving the historic landscape and street canopy.”
Mark Jaconski and Joe Jaconski, owners of Stanley’s True Value Hardware
Store in Roxborough, Pa., were honored as Stormwater Pioneers by the Philadelphia Water Department. The Stormwater Pioneers Program is an initiative established to recognize Philadelphia property owners, developers and
designers for their innovation and dedication to better managing stormwater runoff. In 2010 the Jaconski brothers embarked on a plan to build a new,
larger building on the existing site of their family-owned, 66-year-old hardware store. Faced with the new challenge of stormwater on their larger property, they called upon the Ruggiero Plante Land Design Company in Manayunk
to assist them with creating a system to manage their water efficiently and
environmentally.
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
American Society of Civil Engineers
The ASCE is offering the following courses:
• March 5-6 – Leadership Development for the Engineer, Cincinnati
• March 12-13 – Computer Workshop, Reston, Va.
• March 12-13 – Pumping Systems Design for Civil Engineers,
Baltimore
• March 19-20 – Financial Management for the Professional Engineer,
Orlando, Fla.
• March 26-27 – Storm Sewer System Design Using SWMM, Las Vegas
Visit www.asce.org.
Wisconsin
The University of Wisconsin Department of Engineering-Professional
Development is offering the following courses:
• March 23-24 – Using WinSLAMM v.10.1: Meeting Urban Stormwater
Management Goals, Madison
• April 13-14 – Advanced Modeling Using HEC-RAS, Madison
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CALENDAR
March 30-April 1
American Water Resources Association Spring Conference: Water for Urban
Areas, Los Angeles Airport Hilton, Los Angeles.Visit www.awra.org.
April 12-15
American Public Works Association North American Snow Conference, DeVos
Place, Grand Rapids, Mich.Visit www.apwa.net.
June 7-10
American Water Works Association Annual Conference and Exposition, Anaheim,
Calif. Call 303/347-6181 or visit www.awwa.org.
July 26-29
American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers International Conference, New Orleans.Visit www.asabe.org.
Aug. 2-6
StormCon North American Surface Water Quality Conference & Expo, Austin,
Texas.Visit www.stormcon.com.
Aug. 30-Sept. 2
American Public Works Association International Public Works Congress and
Exposition, Phoenix Convention Center, Phoenix.Visit www.apwa.net.
Sept. 28-30
National Rural Water Association WaterPro Conference, Oklahoma City.
Visit www.nrwa.org.
Oct. 11-14
American Society of Civil Engineers 2015 Convention, New York City.
Visit www.asce.org.
Oct. 12-16
American Water Works Association 2015 Water Infrastructure Conference and
Exposition, Bethesda, Md.Visit www.awwa.org.
Municipal Sewer & Water invites your national, state or local association to post
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From left, Mayor Bernard Carvalho Jr., Department of Water Board Chair
Daryl Kaneshiro, County of Kaua’i Council Chair Jay Furfaro, and project
manager Dustin Moises attend a dedication ceremony for a new 500,000gallon tank in Oma’o, led by kahu (or pastor) Ipo Kahaunaele.
“It’s easier to send a driver
to pick up toilets if they’re
all in one spot. I probably
spent a little bit extra labor,
but at least you don’t
have to send somebody
with a map to go to this
campground, get these six,
go to another campground,
in diameter for those lines serving
ing 455 inches annually. This is also
just a few customers on isolated
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rainfall in parts of the island. Our
up to 90 years old.
water supply relies 85 percent on
the Main event
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tanks, then transmitted through a
water supply levels, storage capacity
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T
he County of Kauai
Department of Water,
charged with the task
of supplying water
across the island of
Kauai, Hawaii, is working to unify
and modernize its water system
under its comprehensive Water Plan
2020. The plan, devised in 2000,
aims to upgrade aging water infrastructure, unite separate water systems and ensure an abundant supply
of quality water for the future on
firm financial footing.
The department currently operates 11 unconnected water systems
ranging from Haena in the north
to Kekaha in the south. While the
island covers more than 560 square
miles, the water distribution system
covers 68 square miles, primarily
along the island’s coast.
The department monitors, operates and maintains 50 deep well
pumping stations, 19 booster pumping stations, four tunnel sources, 58
storage tanks, 75 control valve stations and over 400 miles of pipeline
Let’s roLL
Craig Shirai feeds 1-inch soft
copper pipe through a hole bored
by the Grundomat horizontal
boring tool from TT Technologies.
The first step in any major construction project undertaken by the
County of Kauai Department of Water is the blessing of the project by
a Hawaiian kahu, a local spiritual leader.
“The grounds of the island are sacred in so many ways,” says Bill
Eddy, deputy manager with the department. “We have a priest or
priestess bless the grounds in any project that involves digging.”
Eddy notes that the original Hawaiians didn’t possess iron tools and
used wooden or stone tools instead.
“Because digging in firm ground was so difficult, they buried their
ancestors in the sand or in caves,” he says. “When we break ground to
construct a pipeline in the sandy areas along the coast, we sometimes
The Hawaiian island of Kauai is meeting the challenges of its geography,
climate and remote location while revitalizing its aging water system
By Peter Kenter
February 25 - 28, 2013, Indiana Convention Center
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unloads a Satellite Industries Maxim 3000
restroom at the Oregon Jamboree.
(Photos by Peter Krupp)
Lisa and Scott Weld, owners of Buck’s
Sanitary Service in Eugene, Ore., have a
staff of 10 — an office worker, yard worker,
part-time mechanic and seven drivers.
Lisa works in the office answering phones
and managing the creative and marketing
side while Scott fills in on everything
from ofmanagement
to Eddy,
running
to
Deputy Manager
Engineering Bill
left, routes
pipefitter
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equipment operator
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lead
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the
pipefitter Craig Shirai (out of view) work to replace
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along with
the Welds
copper piping.
(Photography
by Dianne
Reynolds)
and their three children, Maren, 9; Milah,
13; and Sten, 17; who are accustomed to
helping out at events.
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the lives of island residents.”
Advanced Containment Systems, Inc. About 50 percent of their work is
special events, including, in 2012, the U.S. Olympic track-and-field trials.
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and the financial needs of the system.
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community
were
has
topmeetings
talent everthat
since.
In 2012, the 9,000 residents welcomed
held by
manager
Ernest
Lau of
at whom
the camped out. Judd was back to help
40,000
visitors
August
3-5, most
time. The
was heavily
celebrate
thecommunity
Jamboree’s 20th
anniversary, along with Rascal Flatts, Dierks
involvedthe
in Charlie
developing
the plan,
Bentley,
Daniels
Band,and
and enough performers for 22 shows on
YEAR
ESTABLISHED:
that’s
whyOther
the plan
has been
imple- beer and
two
stages.
attractions
included
wine
gardens, merchandise
1960
mented
much
further
booths
and without
a kids’ zone.
The event
is held in a no-facilities, 20-acre park-like
debate
in fithe
nancing
setting
near
edge ofthe
theprojects.”
picturesque town.POPULATION SERVED:
To date, $125 million of a pro66,000
posed $600 million has been spent
AREA SERVED:
By
nuMBers
on the
the program
with the department
68 square miles
making
good progress
on in
its 265
con-units (20 Maxims, 10 Freedoms, 20
The company
brought
DEPARTMENT STAFF:
structionone
schedule.
Liberties,
Standing Room Only urinal unit, and the balance Tufways),
75
involves
continuthreeCurrent
restroomwork
trailers,
and a73
hand-wash stations (half Satellite Industries
INFRASTRUCTURE:
ing
emphasis
on
replacing
pipelines.
Waves from the company’s inventory, the rest PolyPortables, Inc. Tag Alongs
400 miles of water mains
“Each
the old pipe materials
rented
from of
a colleague).
continues to display its own weakANNUAL DEPARTMENT
Some 115 units, including five handicap-accessible,
were set up at the
ness,” notes Eddy. “We’re seeing failBUDGET:
main venue — a few at bus stops, the hospitality
center, and parking lots,
ures in the joints and rubber gaskets
Operating, $25.4 million;
but the bulk in large banks, along with six to eight hand-wash stations, were
capital, $26.2 million (2013)
of asbestos cement pipe that have
placed at the four corners of the facility. The crew placed the ACSI trailers
caused us a lot of trouble. Cast iron
ASSOCIATIONS:
near the stage for the performers and the Ameri-Can
Engineering trailer in
lines become brittle and are subject
American
the food court/beer garden, along with the urinal
unit. Water Works
to full circle cracks, often due to
Association, Hawaii Water
and six hand-wash
were arranged
in twoNational
banks
treeThirty
rootsunits
or ground
shifts. PVCstationsWorks
Association,
atreaching
a smaller,
venue.
Thelife
rest of the
inventory
taken to 23
Rural
Waterwas
Association
theadjacent
end of its
service
campgrounds.
Thirteen
units were
rented to individual campsites.
is subject to lateral
cracks,
particuWEBSITE:
(continued)
larly the thinner material installed
www.kauaiwater.org
decades ago.”
(continued)
PROFILE:
Department of
Water, County of
Kauai, Hawaii
Eight times, Sunday through Wednesday, a caravan of three trailers
made the hour-long drive up Interstate 5 from the company’s yard to the
Jamboree site to deliver units. Two of their 15-year-old company-built
trailers held 16 units each and a third trailer carried 20 (also company-built,
using an Explorer receiver from McKee Technologies, Inc.). The company
used service vehicles to pull the trailers.
Weld tried a new approach for the removal process. Sunday night
and continuing Monday, the team pumped and moved all units to a single
staging area, which he felt simplified the job. “It’s easier to send a driver to
pick up toilets if they’re all in one spot,” he explains. “I probably spent a little
bit extra labor, but at least you don’t have to send somebody with a map to
go to this campground, get these six, go to another campground, get these
eight. Then you start leaving sinks behind and the (handicap unit) doesn’t
fit. It’s just a logistics nightmare trying to get the loads to work out.” During
the week, they grabbed units as schedules permitted.
keepin’ it cLean
Jamboree organizers required someone be on site and available by
radio at all times so Weld, his son and another member of the team stayed in
a motor home at one of the campgrounds.
Venue units were serviced each night from 11 p.m. to 2 a.m. At 6:30
a.m. they started in on the campground units, finishing around 9:30 a.m.
During the day, they pumped out 20 RVs and 19 holding tanks — 10 at the
two shower facilities and the balance for the food vendors.
“The very day we found out we’d
have to move our shop, somebody
came through the door and said,
‘Do you want to buy Buck’s back?’
It was really a door closing, door
opening, all in the same day.”
Scott Weld
coMpany history
In April 2012, Lisa and Scott Weld
bought Buck’s — for the second time. Their
first crack at it was in 1995 when Scott’s
father heard the 20-year-old business was
having problems. The family made an offer
to the founder and operated it for four
years as an add-on to their trash and septic
“The island has uniqueservice
challenges
in securing
its water
business.
In 1999, when
Weld’s
supply. One side of the father
islandretired,
receives
rain
they 13
soldinches
it to a of
national
solid waste
company.
Weld
went to work
per year, while the other
is the
wettest
location
for that company, then 10 years later tried
on Earth, receiving
455 inches annually.”
POSTERS
his hand again at self-employment in the
Bill Eddy
trash
business. A few challenges cropped
up, but they turned out to be fortuitous,
serving approximately 66,000 resisays Lisalenges
Weld.in securing its water supply,”
dents. All department revenues are
says Bill Eddy, deputy manager and
derived from water sales.
engineer with the department. “One
side of the island receives 13 inches
of rain per year, while the other is
(continued)
the wettest location on Earth,
receiv“The island has unique chal(continued)
Unique supply challenges
and private property,” Eddy says.
“Access and maintenance has been
a problem with these pipelines.”
In-house crews tackle mainline
replacement jobs up to 500 feet in
length. The work is primarily digand-replace.
“We have also done several horizontal directional drilling (HDD)
projects using both HDPE and fusible PVC C900,” Eddy says. “Most
HDD work has been done at stream
crossings, a few of them under emergency conditions when existing pipelines were damaged during severe
winter storms. We did one slipline
job on an old 27-inch steel pipe,
sliplined with 16-inch HDPE.”
Outside contractors are engaged
in larger projects, often shipping in
workers and equipment by barge.
department switched from a traditional low bid process to a request
for proposal system. While the major
transition temporarily slowed the
pace at which projects were advertised, the new approach is expected
to provide higher-quality contractors that will assist the department
in remaining on schedule and on
budget.
The department currently has
no leak detection program in place,
because it has found it challenging
to attract qualified technicians to the
island. Kauai has already purchased
SubSurface LD-12 listening devices,
FCS Permaloggers and ZCorr correlators, but currently uses its SCADA
system to detect most large leaks.
Repair crews are split into two
teams, with field crews handling
pipelines and distribution located
along the coast, and plant crews hanSwitching
to RFPs
^^^ Satellite Industries Tufway restrooms are lined up and ready to go before the
dling
andofstorage
tanks located
During
fiscal year
2011-12,
the strung
Oregon
Jamboree,
complete
with lighting
in wells
the front
the units.
Bill Eddy, deputy manager and engineer,
County of Kauai Department of Water.
Five service vehicles were used: A 2010 Peterbilt 335 and a 2008
International 4300, both built out by Progress Vactruck with 1,500-gallon
waste/500-gallon freshwater aluminum tanks; a 2001 Isuzu FTR from
Workmate/FMI Truck Sales & Service with an 850-gallon waste/350-gallon
freshwater steel tank; and two 2000 International 4700s built out by Lely
Manufacturing Inc. with 750-gallon waste/350-gallon freshwater steel tanks.
All have Masport pumps.
Waste was transported to the company’s yard each night and transferred
to a 20,000-gallon tank. From there, another pumping contractor picked up
the waste and disposed of it by land application.
But different
JefferysaMe
Silva (foreground)
and Corey Silva clean caked red Kauai dirt off a
Grundomat
toolan(TT
Inhorizontal
one sense, boring
Weld was
oldTechnologies).
pro at this event, so it was “pretty much
business as usual,” he says. On the other hand, the size and scope had
changed
significantly
the amazement
years — their first
brought in 60
“I
watched
with over
some
at year,
the they
number
for one venue and four campgrounds. “That was the most difficult
ofunits
community
meetings that were held by manager
thing for me,” he says. “So I had to get my act together.” He quickly got his
Ernest
Lau it.
at“You’ve
the time.
The
community
was
heavily
arms around
got to just
scratch
your head and
kick
it in gear and
go. We in
didn’t
stop moving all
weekend.”
involved
developing
the
plan, ■and that’s why the plan
has been implemented without much further debate
in financing the projects.”
David Craddick
Honolulu are notorious for attacking water infrastructure, the exterior of iron pipe fares well in Kauai,
making ductile iron the replacement
material of choice.
Mains buried deeper
The Kauai team is now burying
new mains deeper than in the past.
“Some of the older pipes were buried less than 3 feet deep, and we’re
now adding 3 feet of cover to the
top of the pipe,” Eddy says. “We’re
enforcing the new standard to see
if it has an effect on breakage.”
Sections of older pipelines are
also being aligned with public roads
as they are replaced. “From the
1920s to the 1950s, they were typically aligned along the shortest
route, which caused them to be
installed through pastures, forests
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The Hawaiian island of Kauai is meeting the challenges of its geography,
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The Kauai water
By Peter Kenter
department traverses
The department currently operhe County of Kauai
a clearDepartment
pathof Water,
toward
ates 11 unconnected water systems
ranging from Haena in the north
with the task
system ofcharged
revitalization
to Kekaha in the south. While the
supplying water
T
across the island of
Kauai, Hawaii, is working to unify
and modernize its water system
under its comprehensive Water Plan
2020. The plan, devised in 2000,
aims to upgrade aging water infrastructure, unite separate water systems and ensure an abundant supply
of quality water for the future on
firm financial footing.
island
PAGE
18covers more than 560 square
miles, the water distribution system
covers 68 square miles, primarily
along the island’s coast.
The department monitors, operates and maintains 50 deep well
pumping stations, 19 booster pumping stations, four tunnel sources, 58
storage tanks, 75 control valve stations and over 400 miles of pipeline
“The island has unique challenges in securing its water
supply. One side of the island receives 13 inches of rain
per year, while the other is the wettest location
on Earth, receiving 455 inches annually.”
Bill Eddy
serving approximately 66,000 residents. All department revenues are
derived from water sales.
Unique supply challenges
“The island has unique chal-
lenges in securing its water supply,”
says Bill Eddy, deputy manager and
engineer with the department. “One
side of the island receives 13 inches
of rain per year, while the other is
the wettest location on Earth, receiv(continued)
From left, Mayor Bernard Carvalho Jr., Department of Water Board Chair
Daryl Kaneshiro, County of Kaua’i Council Chair Jay Furfaro, and project
manager Dustin Moises attend a dedication ceremony for a new 500,000gallon tank in Oma’o, led by kahu (or pastor) Ipo Kahaunaele.
Craig Shirai feeds 1-inch soft
copper pipe through a hole bored
by the Grundomat horizontal
boring tool from TT Technologies.
and the financial needs of the system.
The survey rated the condition
of the overall system as poor, noting the deterioration of pipelines
and mapping a series of vulnerable
mainlines located in remote areas
with poor access that impeded repair
and maintenance.
That study preceded Water Plan
2020, a thorough roadmap to revitalizing the water system.
“I was the director at the Maui
Water Board at the time that Water
Plan 2020 was being developed,” says
David Craddick, current manager and
chief engineer at Kauai. “I watched
with some amazement at the number
of community meetings that were
held by manager Ernest Lau at the
time. The community was heavily
involved in developing the plan, and
YEAR ESTABLISHED:
that’s why the plan has been imple1960
mented without much further
debate in financing the projects.”
POPULATION SERVED:
To date, $125 million of a pro66,000
posed $600 million has been spent
AREA SERVED:
on the program with the department
68 square miles
making good progress on its conDEPARTMENT STAFF:
struction schedule.
75
Current work involves a continuSilva
(foreground)
and Corey
Silva clean INFRASTRUCTURE:
caked red Kauai dirt off a
in diameter for those lines servingJefferying
emphasis
on replacing
pipelines.
horizontal
boring
(TT Technologies).
400 miles of water mains
just a few customers on isolatedGrundomat
“Each
of the old
pipetool
materials
ISLAND WATER PROJECTS
BEGIN WITH A BLESSING
The first step in any major construction project undertaken by the
County of Kauai Department of Water is the blessing of the project by
a Hawaiian kahu, a local spiritual leader.
“The grounds of the island are sacred in so many ways,” says Bill
Eddy, deputy manager with the department. “We have a priest or
priestess bless the grounds in any project that involves digging.”
Eddy notes that the original Hawaiians didn’t possess iron tools and
used wooden or stone tools instead.
“Because digging in firm ground was so difficult, they buried their
ancestors in the sand or in caves,” he says. “When we break ground to
construct a pipeline in the sandy areas along the coast, we sometimes
come across a burial site, so we have the area blessed and ask forgiveness for disturbing the dead.”
Any contact with historic artifacts or burial sites is also overseen
by a cultural monitor, an archeological expert, the Kauai Burial Council
and the State Historic Preservation Division to ensure that any bones
of the deceased — iwi — are treated with care and respect.
“At the end of a project, we also hold a dedication ceremony in
which we give thanks for keeping the workers safe,” Eddy says.
“Improving the water system is considered good work that improves
the lives of island residents.”
ing 455 inches annually. This is also
the oldest of the main Hawaiian
islands and the most eroded. Fresh
rock is more permeable, but old
rock doesn’t offer good geology for
wells, so we still need to practice
water conservation despite the heavy
rainfall in parts of the island. Our
water supply relies 85 percent on
groundwater and 15 percent on surface water.”
Water is pumped into storage
tanks, then transmitted through a
pipe system ranging from 3/4 inches
and private property,” Eddy says.
“Access and maintenance has been
a problem with these pipelines.”
In-house crews tackle mainline
replacement jobs up to 500 feet in
length. The work is primarily digand-replace.
“We have also done several horhor
izontal directional drilling (HDD)
projects using both HDPE and fusible PVC C900,” Eddy says. “Most
HDD work has been done at stream
crossings, a few of them under emer
emergency conditions when existing pipeA newly installed water meter from lines were damaged during severe
Badger Meter.
winter storms. We did one slipline
job on an old 27-inch steel pipe,
Ductile iron is faring much bet- sliplined with 16-inch HDPE.”
ter, with occasional pinholes presentOutside contractors are engaged
ing the worst problems. Eddy notes in larger projects, often shipping in
that the island is fortunate to pos- workers and equipment by barge.
sess largely neutral soil.
While aggressive
Switching to RFPs
soils in Oahu and
During fiscal year 2011-12, the
PROFILE:
Department of
Water, County of
Kauai, Hawaii
department switched from a tradi
traditional low bid process to a request
for proposal system. While the major
transition temporarily slowed the
pace at which projects were adver
advertised, the new approach is expected
to provide higher-quality contrac
contractors that will assist the department
in remaining on schedule and on
budget.
The department currently has
no leak detection program in place,
because it has found it challenging
to attract qualified technicians to the
island. Kauai has already purchased
SubSurface LD-12 listening devices,
FCS Permaloggers and ZCorr cor
correlators, but currently uses its SCADA
system to detect most large leaks.
Repair crews are split into two
teams, with field crews handling
pipelines and distribution located
along the coast, and plant crews han
handling wells and storage tanks located
Bill Eddy, deputy manager and engineer,
County of Kauai Department of Water.
routes to 24-inch mains. The districontinues to display its own weakANNUAL DEPARTMENT
bution system is comprised of everyness,”
notes Eddy.
“We’re
seeingamazement
failBUDGET:
“I
watched
with
some
at the number
thing from galvanized steel to
ures in the joints and rubber gaskets
Operating, $25.4 million;
meetings
that were
held$26.2
by manager
capital,
million (2013)
asbestos cement, cast iron, ductile ofofcommunity
asbestos cement
pipe that have
Lau
time.
was heavily
iron, concrete cylinder and PVC. Ernest
caused us
a lotat
ofthe
trouble.
CastThe
iron community
ASSOCIATIONS:
Pipes range in age from brand newinvolved
lines become
brittle and arethe
subject
American
Works
in developing
plan, and
that’sWater
why the
plan
up to 90 years old.
to full circle cracks, often due to
Association,
Hawaii
Water
has
been implemented without much
further
debate
A thorough survey of the system
tree roots or ground shifts. PVC
Works Association, National
in financing
the projects.”
Rural Water Association
conducted in the late 1990s revealed
reaching the end
of its service life
deficiencies in pipe condition, along
is subject to lateral cracks,
particuDavid
Craddick WEBSITE:
with concerns about system capacity,
larly the thinner material installed
www.kauaiwater.org
water supply levels, storage capacityHonolulu
decades
now adding 3 feet of cover to the
are ago.”
notorious for attacktop of the pipe,” Eddy says. (continued)
“We’re
ing water infrastructure, the exte-
rior of iron pipe fares well in Kauai,
making ductile iron the replacement
material of choice.
Mains buried deeper
The Kauai team is now burying
new mains deeper than in the past.
“Some of the older pipes were bur
buried less than 3 feet deep, and we’re
enforcing the new standard to see
if it has an effect on breakage.”
Sections of older pipelines are
also being aligned with public roads
as they are replaced. “From the
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Thea Hughes,
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Utility in Jacksonville, Ark.
SEALING THE
SYSTEM
Rehabilitation and
outreach efforts are playing
a big role in the Jacksonville
Wastewater Utility’s battle
to eliminate I&I and SSOs
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SEWER/WATER: High
Tech on the High Plains
Cheyenne, Wyo., is meeting the future head on as it plans for growth and
investigates new technology — including a unique fuel cell demonstration project.
By Peter Kenter
WWETT SHOW ISSUE,
PIPELINE & INFRASTRUCTURE
24
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SEWER: Sealing the System
Rehabilitation and outreach efforts are playing a big role in the Jacksonville
Wastewater Utility’s battle to eliminate I&I and SSOs.
By Dan Heim
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STORM: No
More Waiting
Proactive approach to operation and maintenance helps Virginia Beach
cut overflows and blockages in its huge, aging system.
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COLUMNS
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FROM THE EDITOR: Find
Your Inspiration
The WWETT Show shines a bright light on this industry and the people
who keep it moving forward.
By Luke Laggis
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BETTER MOUSETRAPS: A
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Poly pipe averts disaster as crumbling asbestos concrete
undermines upstate New York island.
By Stephen C. Cooper
ON THE COVER:
Thea Hughes, general manager of the
Jacksonville Wastewater Utility in Jacksonville, Ark. Rehabilitation and outreach
efforts are playing a big role in the Jacksonville Wastewater Utility’s battle to
eliminate I&I and SSOs. (Photography by
Stephen B. Thornton)
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HUMAN SIDE: It’s
Time to Talk
Focused conversations can foster a workplace filled with
engaged and motivated employees who are less prone to jump ship.
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NASSCO CORNER: NASSCO Names
New Technical Director
By Ted DeBoda, P.E.
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FIND YOUR INSPIRATION
The WWETT Show shines a bright light on this industry
and the people who keep it moving forward
W
elcome to the 2015 Water & Wastewater Equipment, Treatment &
Transport (WWETT) Show issue of MSW. I hope you’ve made it to
Indy and are excited to take in everything the show has to offer.
This is the biggest show we’ve ever put on, and we hope it’s the best
you’ve attended.
I’m looking forward to talking to as many of you as possible, getting
your feedback, listening to the issues you’re facing and hearing your stories. Of course, I’m excited to check out all the new tools, trucks and equipment, too, but it’s your stories I’m most interested in.
I’ve been at the helm of MSW for over three years now. We’ve profiled 114 utilities in that time, and everyone reveals a new twist, a different focus or a better way of approaching a problem. It’s an industry with
a high level of technology and innovation, yet sometimes it’s still the
smallest utilities, trying to do more with less, that figure out how to build
a better mousetrap.
FROM THE EDITOR
Luke Laggis
That’s part of what makes the WWETT Show such a great experience
— seeing such a diverse group of people all seeking better ways to serve
their communities. And that’s mirrored by the diversity of manufacturers, from large companies offering the latest and greatest jet/vac trucks
and rehabilitation systems, to the startups providing innovative ways to
address specific issues you face every day. It’s the positive, proactive
approach we celebrate in MSW, and it’s on display all week at the show.
Whether you’re in the classroom, kicking the tires on a half-million-dollar hydroexcavator or striking up conversation with peers in your hotel
lobby, you’ll have no problem finding inspiration. So take advantage, because
the insight you gain could help you solve a nagging problem or chart an
entirely new course for your utility.
You’ll have plenty of opportunities to learn and improve your utility
while you’re here in Indy. You’ll also have plenty of opportunities to relax
and enjoy yourself. Make sure all of the following are on your itinerary:
Whether you’re in the classroom, kicking the
tires on a half-million-dollar hydroexcavator or
striking up conversation with peers in your hotel
lobby, you’ll have no problem finding inspiration.
Education Day. You don’t have to spend all day in the classroom, but be
sure to pick out at least a few classes that address questions, areas of interest or new opportunities you’ve been eyeing. The level of instruction is
excellent, and knowledge gained will serve you year-round.
Walking the floor. OK, this one is obvious, but make sure you see everything on the show floor. You might find the long-sought solution to your
FOG problems or a new inspection system that changes the way you manage your assets. Or you may just walk out with fresh ideas to improve your
operations. Either way, there’s some pretty cool stuff to see.
“I was very
pleased with the
performance
of the Plug
Hug in our
fire hydrant maintenance program.The wear on the
brushes in the Plug Hug itself was very minimal and
my crew was very happy to
not be using hand operated
wire brushes to prepare the
hydrants for painting.”
John Barrett
Supt. of Public Works
Village of Avon, N.Y.
Terry Byrne Inc. • PO Box 444, Mansfield, OH 44901
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Sewer History Exhibit. For the first time, NASSCO and the Arizona
Water Association will have their Sewer History Exhibit on display in the
main corridor outside the exhibit hall. It’s an impressive display of early
ingenuity and a great look at how far the industry has come. Sometimes
taking a look back can help you see the way forward.
Industry Appreciation Party. We’re giving away a truck. Cole Swindell
and Blackjack Billy are playing. And you can wash it all down with 25-cent
tap beer. Enough said. Don’t miss out.
It’s not easy to boil the whole week down to four items on your itinerary, and really, why would you want to? There’s so much more to see and
do. Take it all in, and enjoy the show.
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Cheyenne Board of Public Utilities
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members clean a section of sewer
line with their Vactor 2100 jet/vac
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By Peter Kenter
T
he Ctity of Cheyenne, Wyo.,
owes its existence to the construction of the Union Pacific
railway — a technological marvel of
the 19th century. The Cheyenne
Board of Public Utilities (CBOPU)
continues that tradition of investigating new technologies, including an
advanced fuel cell that uses sewer
gases to generate electricity for the
benefit of its customers.
The city’s first water system was
developed in the 1870s, pumping
water from Crow Creek to supply
the railroad and provide water for
fire protection. It soon expanded
to supply homes and businesses.
Through the early 1900s, the city
grew into an important military cen-
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ter and cattle town. To meet
increased water demands, Cheyenne
constructed a series of reservoirs, a
water treatment plant, a storage tank
and connecting pipelines. The reservoirs, tank and even some of the
pipes are still in use today.
water and sewer systems. Its first
major project: construction of a
wastewater treatment plant.
An expanding system
Now a city of almost 75,000,
Cheyenne has developed a water sys-
“We’re on the High Plains at over 6,000 feet in elevation, but we’re lucky that the local topography only
requires us to use five sewer lift stations.”
– Frank Strong
During the Dust Bowl years of
the 1930s, the city constructed a
series of wells to augment the Crow
Creek water supply. In 1943 it established the Board of Public Utilities
to manage and control both the
tem that comprises nine reservoirs
and crosses three mountain ranges
— the Continental Divide, the North
Platte River Basin and the Laramie
River Basin. About 250 miles of raw
water mains (34 percent ductile
iron, 29 percent cast iron and 33
percent PVC) collect and transport
water to and from reservoirs. A newly
constructed water treatment plant
can treat up to 32 million gpd and
distribute it through 466 miles of
potable water mains. About 328
miles of sewer mains, primarily vitrified clay and PVC, collect wastewater and deliver it to two water
reclamation facilities. Another 14
miles of reclaimed water mains
deliver recycled water to parks and
sports fields.
“As with most water and wastewater systems, ours are in good condition with numerous mains that
have exceeded their design life and
continue to function,” says Frank
(continued)
Strong, P.E., operations and maintenance manager, CBOPU. “For
example, 29 percent of the water
system is more than 50 years old.
But we’re performing reasonably
well with an average of 9.2 water
main breaks and 10.8 sewer main
backups per 100 miles of collections
system in the last five years. Typically, pipe failure in Cheyenne is the
result of cracks due to the age of
the material or pockets of corrosive
soil. We have a large variety of soil
types in the area, so we require test
holes and geotechnical reports on
all new installations.”
In-house crews are on call 24
hours a day to handle water main
PROFILE:
Board of
Public Utilities,
Cheyenne, Wyo.
YEAR UTILITY
ESTABLISHED:
1943
CUSTOMERS SERVED:
23,071 water accounts
AREA SERVED:
21 sq. mi. +
DEPARTMENT STAFF:
130 employees
INFRASTRUCTURE:
250 miles of raw water
mains, 466 miles of treated
water mains, 14 miles of
reclaimed water mains,
328 miles of sewer mains
ANNUAL DEPARTMENT
OPERATING BUDGET:
$29.2 million (sewer and
water)
ASSOCIATIONS:
American Water Works
Association, American Society of Civil Engineers, Water
Environment Federation,
Wyoming Water and Wastewater Agency Response
Network, Wyoming Water
Quality & Pollution Control
Association
WEBSITE:
www.cheyennecity.org/index.
aspx?nid=157
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“Typically, pipe failure in Cheyenne
is the result of cracks due to the age
of the material or pockets of corrosive
soil. We have a large variety of soil
types in the area, so we require test
holes and geotechnical reports on
all new installations.”
–Frank Strong
Two Board of Public Utilities
workers close a steel door at a
water collection point in the
Little Snake River Basin near
Encampment, Wyo. Water
collected here is stored in Hog
Park Reservoir.
breaks and sanitary sewer backups.
However, winter quickly puts the
deep freeze on Cheyenne soil. Jackhammers are often used to break
through frost layers anywhere from
3 inches to 4 feet thick.
The utility operates a rigorous
preventive maintenance program
for both water and sewer systems.
Water distribution system maintenance includes hydrant flushing,
valve exercising and curb stop maintenance. The city rehabilitates 2
miles of water mains and replaces
20 fire hydrants annually.
Listening for leaks
Water system leak testing
includes 32 remote leak sensors
placed inside existing water valve
boxes. These are later collected and
data is analyzed so that utility staff
can follow up reports of potential
leaks with higher-precision Gutermann acoustic microphones and
correlators.
The maintenance program for
the collections system includes 110
miles of sewer main cleaning each
year, using four combination trucks
— three Vactors and a Vac-Con. The
maintenance program also includes
manhole maintenance, manhole
replacement, point repairs, root
Cheyenne Board of Public Utilities Operations and Maintenance crew
members excavate a waterline beneath a residential street.
treatment, video inspection and lift
station maintenance.
“We’re on the High Plains at
over 6,000 feet in elevation, but
we’re lucky that the local topography only requires us to use five sewer
lift stations,” Strong says.
In-house crews perform the
majority of sewer maintenance work,
with the exception of rehab projects, root treatment and some manhole replacement.
Utility crews also handle sewer
point repairs using a trenchless,
resin-based pipe patch system.
“We budget annually to rehabilitate 1.5 miles of sewer mains per
year,” Strong says.
Predictable growth
While Cheyenne is undoubtedly
benefiting from the local oil and gas
boom, a diversified economy, including agricultural and high-tech sectors, has the region growing
comfortably and steadily at about 1
percent per year.
The city’s capital projects over
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Wastewater collections system
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The biggest project is Phase 1 of a
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designed to service southern Cheyenne. In addition, the utility plans
to increase its sewer main rehabilitation rate from 1.5 miles per year
to 2.5 miles per year, also in 2018.
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plant at the City of
Cheyenne’s Dry Creek
Water Reclamation
Facility. The facility
uses biogas methane to
power a fuel cell at the
data plant.
Powering up with fuel cells
Cheyenne Board of Public
Utilities Operations and Maintenance Manager Frank Strong on
a job site in Cheyenne.
the next 10 years total an estimated
$212 million, with about half that
budget devoted to new transmission
mains, distribution mains and water
main rehabilitation. The budget
includes Phase II of the $22.5 million Southern Water Transmission
Main project, completed in 2014.
The project added 11.5 miles of
42-inch transmission mains to supply water to neighborhoods in the
southern areas of Cheyenne. Phase
III of the project is already in the
planning stage.
“Included in the recommended
capital projects is an increase in Chey-
The utility also continues to
investigate new technology.
A demonstration project at the
utility’s Dry Creek wastewater facility uses biogas to power a Microsoft
data center through fuel cell technology, which harnesses chemical
reactions directly to generate electricity. The $7.6 million demonstration project will power a
containerized Microsoft IT server.
“The server will crunch enough
real-life data to test the concept and
determine whether the energy provided by the fuel cell will provide
consistent energy under load,” says
Anja Bendel, director of business
development with Cheyenne LEADS,
a private, not-for-profit economic
development organization that
RESERVOIR CAMS KEEP
AN EYE ON WATER SUPPLY
Cheyenne, Wyo., was originally located around the water supply
provided by Crow Creek, flowing though the Laramie Mountains. As the
city and its metropolitan area grew, so did its need for new water
supplies.
“We now have a vast water system that crosses three mountain
ranges,” says Frank Strong, operations and maintenance manager with
the Cheyenne Board of Public Utilities (CBOPU). “In the summer, our
source of supply crews regularly travel to Saratoga, about 150 miles
west of Cheyenne, and stay there for four-day shifts to manage the
water supply infrastructure.”
To help extend the utility’s reach, security cameras maintain a
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24-hour vigil over all of the city’s water supplies, reservoirs and critical
water infrastructure.
“Source of supply crews, operators and engineering staff use the
Web cameras to check on weather conditions, security and operational
information,” Strong says. “Operators can, if needed, manipulate the
cameras remotely.”
However, some of the cameras focused on city reservoirs feed
directly to the CBOPU website and are accessible to the public.
“Cheyenne’s reservoirs and the land around them are used by
recreationalists who check the cameras for weather conditions,” Strong
says. “However, placing the camera feeds on the website is more than a
public service. It also allows the U.S. Forest Service, state agencies and
downstream communities to monitor the reservoirs. Better still, it
allows our crews to monitor conditions from any mobile or Internet
device, even while en route to resources that are several hours away
from Cheyenne.”
An exterior view of the Dry Creek Water
Reclamation Facility in eastern Cheyenne, Wyo.
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assisted in the bid proposal to host the pilot at
CBOPU and helped coordinate the project.
The fuel cell plant was designed to produce 300
kilowatts of renewable power while the data center
will only use about 200 kW. The excess electricity
will be delivered to the wastewater treatment plant.
Microsoft will use the data collected in further
research, which could see pint-sized fuel cells placed
directly inside data server racks.
A bonus for the utility — by installing the sophisticated monitoring systems associated with the project, the wastewater plant will be better able to monitor
and analyze its own overall operations.
The project combined the contributions of private industry partners such as Microsoft, Jacobs Engineering, Evoqua Water Technologies and FuelCell
Energy Inc. with a coalition that included CBOPU,
the University of Wyoming, the Wyoming Business
Council, the Western Research Institute, and state
and local government partners.
After the 18-month demonstration project has
concluded, Microsoft will donate the data plant infrastructure to the participants, including the University of Wyoming, for further research.
“It’s unusual to have that many stakeholders working together on a common goal,” Bendel says. “This
utility project shows what you can achieve when you’re
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BETTER MOUSETRAPS
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Poly pipe averts disaster as crumbling asbestos concrete undermines upstate New York island
By Stephen C. Cooper
T
he final straw for a long section of the sanitary sewer line in Grand
Island, N.Y., was a sinkhole large enough for a dump truck and sewage that flooded local residences and businesses in August 2013.
Running under Whitehaven Road, the main east/west multilane street,
the 35-year-old, 30-inch-diameter asbestos cement pipe failed due to corrosion from hydrogen sulfide gas. Six hundred and fifty feet of 30-inch-diameter SaniTite HP triple-wall polypropylene pipe replaced the failed concrete
pipe at depths of 22 to 24 feet.
Due to the extreme nature of the pipe failure and because the Town of
Grand Island is surrounded by the Niagara River, it was imperative that the
pipe be replaced quickly to prevent further damage to homes and buildings, and to stop any effluent from flowing into the Niagara River and eventually over Niagara Falls, causing a potential environmental disaster. The
$500,000 emergency repair took a month to complete.
Since the 1700s, the Town of Grand Island has been a resort, a lumber
town, a colonial battleground, part of the City of Buffalo and part of the
nearby Town of Tonawanda. Today, it is home to more than 20,000 residents
and hundreds of businesses, ranging from small stores to major corporations
with 500 people and more. The island town is 8 miles from Niagara Falls.
Sections of SaniTite HP triple-wall polypropylene pipe are staged to
replace a failed 30-inch asbestos concrete sewer main in Grand Island,
N.Y. During the repair, the crew used 8- and 12-inch pumps to bypass
the area. RIGHT and BOTTOM RIGHT: Crews excavate the failed line,
which was buried 22 to 24 feet deep along a busy highway.
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“We had an asbestos cement pipe that over the years was being eaten away
by hydrogen sulfide gas,” explains John Whitney, P.E., Grand Island engineer.
“This pipe originates upstream and the end of it is a tributary to a very long
force main. Sewage goes septic in that force main. When it gets discharged
into the gravity sewer, which is the 30-inch ACP, hydrogen sulfide gas mixes
with air and you end up with various permeations of sulfuric acid. That is very
destructive to cement and the pipe got so thin it just collapsed. It had already
caused a sink hole the size of a dump truck and 27 feet deep.”
Among other plastics, polypropylene is inert to the effects of hydrogen
sulfide present in sanitary sewers, making it a highly recommended material of choice to replace deteriorating infrastructure across the country. SaniTite HP has been used in similar emergency repairs to replace failed
infrastructure in Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
“In other sections, also, there was a tremendous amount of dirt that had
infiltrated into the pipe from cracks,” he says. “We ran a camera in there and
looked upstream from one of the downstream manholes and saw that the
dirt went right to the ceiling of the pipe. And because the pipe was in such a
deteriorated condition, we would not have been able to clean it without
destroying it. We replaced it in the same trench with the SaniTite HP pipe.”
A satellite view of Grand Island
surrounded by the Niagara River.
– Bill Kelley
time and labor and makes for a more secure system
versus the several-ton weight of each short section
of comparable concrete pipe.
According to Bill Kelley of Lock City Supply in
Lockport, N.Y., who provided the materials for the
job, “This was a very deep cut near a very busy highway, and the repair had to be done quickly and safely.
Not only is the pipe we used a good quality product,
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Aside from the depth, the project also had other
challenges, including a 1.5-inch rain storm, a ductile iron pipeline that had to be cut and reinstalled,
plus high-voltage electric lines overhead.
“The break was right in front of a water pumping station with a 3-million-gallon water tank, and
there was a 16-inch ductile iron water transmission
main which we had to cross,” Whitney explains. “The
only way to do this was to physically isolate it, cut
the line, run the new sanitary line and then reinstall
the iron pipe.
“We were also adjacent to the National Grid power
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During the repair, the crew used 8- and 12-inch pumps to bypass the
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Rehabilitation and outreach efforts are playing a big role in the
Jacksonville Wastewater Utility’s battle to eliminate I&I and SSOs
By Dan Heim
J
acksonville is in central Arkansas, just off I-40 about 12 miles
northeast of Little Rock. It’s not
a heavily industrialized area, and the
majority of the wastewater utility’s
flow comes from residential sources.
But with many pipes over 60 years
old, some going back to the 1930s,
and an average 50 inches of rain
annually, SSOs and I&I were causing
problems for the Jacksonville Wastewater Utility as early as 1980.
“That’s when we got serious,”
says Bob Williams, engineering construction manager for JWU. “We
started looking at where that I&I was
coming from. What we found was
contributions from both pipes and
manholes, with manholes typically
the worst offenders.”
And so in 2000, JWU began their
continuing efforts, now about twothirds complete, spending to date
some $18.5 million on rehab and
replacement. Overflows from I&I
have been reduced from 27 in 2009
to zero in 2014, a significant
decrease. Since 2008, I&I has been
reduced on average by 45 percent,
with up to 63 percent on some lines.
Jacksonville’s problems
Jacksonville Wastewater Utility’s Kenneth Maxwell (left) and
Alex Manriquez clean a sewer main, part of Jacksonville’s
routine maintenance plan, with a Vac-Con combination truck.
(Photography by Stephen B. Thornton)
The main issue was simply the
age and condition of their pipes and
manholes and the resulting I&I and
SSOs. Their original two treatment
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a manhole during a warranty
inspection of an 8-inch PVC
PROFILE:
Jacksonville (Ark.)
Wastewater Utility
SERVICE AREA:
29 square miles
CUSTOMERS:
9,000, mostly residential
POPULATION DENSITY:
1,134 per square mile
INFRASTRUCTURE:
177.5 miles gravity pipe (6-42
inch, PVC, concrete, clay,
DI, HDPE), 15 miles force
main (2-18 inch, PVC, DI),
14 lift stations (90-3,500
gpm), 3,500 manholes, singletreatment plant with 12 mgd
capacity
ANNUAL BUDGET:
$3.9 million O&M,
$2.5 million capital (2014 data)
EMPLOYEES:
36 full-time (plus outside
contractors)
AVERAGE RAINFALL:
50 inches per year
WEBSITE:
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plants used old technology and were
being increasingly overwhelmed by
daily loads.
Some of that I&I is coming from
private residences through pipes on
the owners’ property, likewise from
sanitary tee clean-outs with caps that
have been dislodged or removed and
not replaced. Residential contributions are difficult to measure, but
based on specific instances encountered they add an easily avoidable
load to the collections system. Many
homes in the JWU service area are
at least as old as the city’s pipes.
Jacksonville discharges stormwater directly without any processing
into Bayou Meto, a small tributary
of the Arkansas River. Processing
would involve a huge cost they’d obviously prefer to avoid, and Jacksonville wants to keep their system split.
“That’s a separate department
from ours, and they have to monitor their own effluent,” says Walton
Jay Summers, JWU collections system manager. “That started about
2002 when they applied for an
NPDES permit to use Bayou Meto
for stormwater. To date, their effluent is still within specs. The only
stormwater we have to deal with is
what gets into our system through
and no real dry season. The cold
season lasts on average from late
November to late February with
freezing temperatures averaging 30
percent of the year. Trenching can
“We’re doing a good job with that outreach, seeing
improvement every year, and probably pushing it
harder than a lot of cities. Grease and ‘flushable’ wipes
are a problem all over the country, so I hope others can
learn from our success.”
– Thea Hughes
I&I.”
Their Class C soils (clay and soft
rock) are susceptible to heaving and
subsidence — not a good thing when
a lot of your pipe is clay or concrete.
Topography within the service area
varies in elevation by only around
100 feet, so gravity lines are possible, but 14 pump stations are still
required. Gravity lines with the requisite slope are limited in depth for
practical reasons.
Jacksonville has a warm, humid,
temperate climate with hot summers
be done in winter as the depth of
frozen soil is never more than a few
inches. Snowfall during this same
period is even less an issue, with an
average of only 4 inches annually.
Still, it’s hard to trench in wet
Class C soil. With an average annual
rainfall of 50 inches and an average
depth to groundwater from 0 to 20
feet, more often than not they are
digging in mud. This can be done
safely using approved trench-shoring
practices, but is an impediment to
what would normally be an easy job.
An Aries LE 2165 Lateral Launch System is
positioned at the base of a manhole at the
start of a mainline inspection. Far right: The
view from the inspection monitor as the
camera makes its way through the line.
JWU’s solutions
With 177.5 miles of aging pipe, 3,500 manholes and 14 lift stations, the
obvious solution was a full system inspection, repairing what they could and
replacing what they couldn’t.
JWU does a lot of their work in-house but subs out pipe bursting to Horseshoe Construction of La Porte, Texas. “We did our
first pipe bursting in 2000, and since that time we’ve
used only two contractors for that work,” recalls Williams. “Initially, we used the Heller Company from
Hot Springs, Ark.”
Likewise with their CIPP projects where contractors are drawn from local sources, Williams explains,
“Our contractors have to go through the usual bid
process, but if we’re happy with their work the contract has an option for us to renew them for another
four years.”
Most of the pipe going in around new construction is PVC or HDPE. For pipe that’s being replaced,
what’s already there presents some constraints. If they
can make plastic work, that’s what they’ll put in. The
existing clay and concrete pipes just haven’t held up
in their Class C soils.
For the manholes, which are mostly in-house projects, JWU uses any of a number of products, all
cementitious compounds. They’re still comparing
efficacies and haven’t yet settled on a specific brand.
“When you have to do bursting into a manhole,
there’s usually considerable reconstruction needed,
so we make that work part of the pipe bursting process,” Williams says. “That allows our own crews to
handle the more straightforward rehabs.”
Manhole rehab was started back in 2008. Since
then JWU has seen a reduction in I&I from between
29 to 63 percent with an average of 45 percent, and
that’s with only two-thirds of the manholes done. SSOs
caused by I&I have also been reduced from 27 in 2009
to three in 2013 to zero in 2014 (as of December).
“We’re addressing I&I from private residences
with our service line program,” says Thea Hughes,
JWU general manager. “It’s actually been in effect
since the early ‘90s, but we’re pushing it more now.
Once an I&I issue is identified, we require the homeowner to make the needed repairs at their own cost.
“We provide a letter and diagram explaining the
problem along with suggested fixes. They have 90
days to make those repairs or we shut off their water.
If they can’t afford it, we provide a loan program
through our local HUD office to help them out.”
So JWU is now getting more of the wastewater
and less of the rainwater into the treatment plant.
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• Wipe Out Wipes
Can The Grease explains alternative disposal methods for household
(continued)
Outreach and education
JWU maintains a website that contributes to their
success. On their home page, prominently displayed,
are three important links for customer education:
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SERVING THE MILITARY
Jacksonville Wastewater Utility’s Todd Collins (left) and Steve
Grobeck assist with the confined-space entry equipment as Joey
Shofe enters a manhole to perform rehabilitation work.
Located just inside the city limits of Jacksonville, Ark., Little Rock
AFB is tied into the Jacksonville Wastewater Utility (JWU) system.
They don’t have their own treatment plant, but they do have 80,000
feet of gravity lines and 323 manholes. So that adds to the total load
processed by JWU.
“The base contributes about 18 percent of our wastewater
processing load, but we never need to go in there because they are
responsible for maintaining all their own pipes and manholes,” notes
Thea Hughes, JWU general manager.
Bob Williams, engineering construction manager for JWU, adds,
“There’s been nothing especially hazardous coming from that source. In
fact, their compliance with our wastewater guidelines is better than
average.”
Still, JWU maintains a separate water-quality monitoring system for
the effluent from the base. It’s a prudent measure given the unique
nature of the source. No problems have been detected to date.
Little Rock AFB is home to the 19th Airlift Wing, a part of the
Military Airlift Command. Base Commander Col. Patrick J. Rhatigan
oversees some 10,000 base personnel participating in their mission.
They are known as the “Home of the C-130 Combat Airlift,” supporting more than 65 of those venerable workhorse aircraft.
The C-130 is a heavy-lift machine with a range of 1,150 miles and a
maximum payload of 21 tons. It’s still in regular use for support
missions within the states as a FEMA resource and overseas in support
of combat operations.
The working relationship between JWU and Little Rock AFB has
been mutually beneficial. Col. Rhatigan has consistently supported
JWU’s wastewater guidelines, avoiding increased wastewater charges,
and JWU appreciates their cooperation.
“In 2011, for example, over 60 percent of our service
calls were related to grease blockages in the main. And
it cost the citizens over $19,000 to clean those up. This
year we’ve got that down to $3,000 to $4,000.”
– Walton Jay Summers
General Manager Thea Hughes (front, second from right) with her
staff at the Jacksonville Wastewater Utility.
grease and advocates allowing the
grease to cool and solidify in cans
or cartons for later delivery to the
landfill with other household trash.
Commercial establishments are
required to use grease traps. Com-
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pliance has been very good across
both sectors.
“In 2011, for example, over 60
percent of our service calls were
related to grease blockages in the
main,” Summers says. “And it cost
the citizens over $19,000 to clean
those up. In 2014, we got that down
to $3,000 to $4,000.”
The Water’s Worth It section,
created by the Water Environment
Federation, makes more of an intellectual appeal:
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yet we take it for granted. The world’s
water supply is finite. Water is a valuable resource that can be recovered and
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Wipe Out Wipes addresses the
issue of sanitary wipes that are often
advertised as being flushable, but
in practice are not. “Manufacturers
have guidelines for being able to use
that label, but all that really means
is they can be flushed,” notes
Hughes. “It says nothing about the
ability of the product to break down
once it’s in the lines. It often ends
up getting caught on roots or other
intrusions and wrapping around
pump motors.
“What we’re finding is that these
things make it into our pumps and
can cause mechanical problems that
are costly to fix. This is happening
all around the country and all
around the world. Can The Grease
has been extremely successful, but
we’re really struggling with this wipes
issue. Our slogan has only been in
Alex Manriquez (left) and Kenneth Maxwell at the controls of a
Vac-Con combination truck while cleaning a sewer main.
effect for two years, but we’re hoping that if we continue to push it, it’ll
eventually catch on.”
The road forward
JWU is not on a rigid completion schedule. They do what they can within
their budget each year. “We’re looking at probably another 10 years to wrap
this all up,” says Williams.
Fortunately their pump stations are in good shape, as is the treatment
plant, so JWU will continue to focus their resources
on pipe and manhole infrastructure.
Regular maintenance on the pump stations and
treatment plant also tap into their budget, but they
hope to lower those costs through their Wipe Out
Wipes and Can The Grease educational outreach
programs.
“We’re doing a good job with that outreach, seeing improvement every year, and probably pushing
it harder than a lot of cities,” says Hughes. “Grease
and ‘flushable’ wipes are a problem all over the country, so I hope others can learn from our success.
We’ve already been contacted by several cities in
Arkansas who want to learn about our programs,
like coordinating HUD loan assistance for service
line repair by homeowners.”
The JWU educational outreach also extends into
area schools. Just last year a local high school student won first place at their science fair for a project investigating how “flushable” various types of
wipes really are. JWU helped with that research. Her
project was featured as a poster board at the Water
Environment Federation Technical Expo & Conference held in New Orleans last October.
JWU has yet to establish an internship program
for students interested in pursuing a career in water
management, but hopes to in the future. They are
deeply involved with the Arkansas Water Environment Association’s Young Professionals Committee,
a statewide association, with a JWU staff member
serving as chair of the YPC.
The YPC is working with schools to attract students to their profession. As with many utilities, the
“graying of personnel” is an issue at JWU. Attracting the number of qualified replacements needed
to offset attrition is an ongoing battle.
“I’d say our work on reducing I&I is about as
good as it can get,” notes Williams. “We’ve really
been aggressive about that, and it’s paying off in
many ways. That applies to city mainlines and private service lines. I feel really good about where
we are now and where we’ll be a few years down
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Current Exhibitor List
3T Equipment Company Inc.
A. Rhodes Wilson & Associates, Inc.
A.R. North America
Abbott Rubber Company, Inc.
ABCO Industries Limited
Absolute Ablutions Mobile Trailer
Manufacturer
Acro Trailer
Advance Pump & Equipment
Advanced Containment Systems Inc.
Advanced Drainage Systems
Advanced Infrastructure Technologies, LLC
Advanced Pressure Systems
Advantage Funding
Aero-Tech
Airfeet
AK Industries Inc.
Alderon Industries, Inc.
All Star Sewer Equipment
Allan J. Coleman Co.
Allied Forward Motion LLC
Allied Graphics
Alpine Equipment Funding, Inc.
Alteris-SeptiCover
AlturnaMATS, Inc.
Amazing Machinery, LLC.
Ameri-Can Engineering
American Express OPEN
American Melt Blown & Filtration Inc
American Pipe & Plastics, Inc.
Amesbury / Bandlock Products
Amthor International
Anderson Metals Corp., Inc.
Anua
AP/M Permaform
Aqua Blast Corporation
Aqua Mole Technologies Inc.
AquaFlow
AquaSoles by V.P. Marketing
Arcan Enterprises Inc.
Aries Industries Inc.
Armal, Inc.
ART Company (A Restroom Trailer Company)
Arthur Custom Tank / Mid-State Tank
Arthur Products Co.
Ashland PolyTrap
Ashland Pump
Atlanta Rubber & Hydraulics Inc.
Atlas Portable Sanitation
Avanti International
B Green Group
Bad Dog Tools
BakerCorp
Ball Brass and Aluminum Foundry Inc.
Banjo Corporation
Barnett
BASE Engineering Inc.
Bayco NightStick/The Jolly Group, Inc.
BDP Industries, Inc.
Benjamin Media Inc.
Benlee, Inc.
Best Enterprises Inc.
Best Equipment Company
Betts Industries Inc.
Biffs Pathfinders, LLC
BioLynceus
Bio-Microbics Inc.
Bionetix International
Bio-Systems International
BKP Berolina Polyester GmbH & Co. KG
Black Tie Products
Blasters, Inc.
Blue Angel Pumps
bluefrog Plumbing + Drain™
BODUS GmbH
Boerger LLC
Brandenburger Liner GmbH & Co. KG
BRAWOLINER
Brenlin Company, Inc.
Bright Dyes
Bright Technologies Specialty
Div. of Sebright Products, Inc.
Brothers Equipment
Brown Bear Corporation
Buckhorn Pumps, Inc
Bucks Fabricating
Bulk Toilet Paper
Bull Frog Industries LLC
BW Technologies by Honeywell/
Honeywell Analytics
C&E Plastics Inc.
C&H Services
C.I.Agent Solutions
Cam Spray
Canam Equipment Solutions, Inc.
Canplas Industries Ltd
Cape Cod Biochemical Co.
CAPPELLOTTO S.P.A.
Cat Pumps®
Cavallero Plastics, Inc.
CEMTEC / A.W. Cook Cement Products
Century Paper & Chemical
Champion Pump Company, Inc.
Chandler Equipment
Chelsea Products/Div. of Parker
Chempace Corporation
Chempure Products Corp.
Cherne Industries
CIPP Services, LLC
Clayton Industries
Clear Computing
Clearstream Wastewater Systems Inc.
Cloverleaf Tool Co.
Cobra Technologies
Columbia Tanks LLC
Comet USA, Inc.
Comforts of Home Services, Inc.
Concrete Sealants Inc.
Coneqtec-Universal
Consolidated Treatment Systems, Inc.
Containment Solutions
CoreBiologic, LLC
Cotta Transmissions
Cougar Vibration, Div of Martin Engineering
COXREELS
CPACEX
Crescent Tank Manufacturing
Cretex Specialty Products
CromaFlow Inc.
Crust Busters/Schmitz Bros.
CUES
Cummins Power Products
Cusco
De Neef Construction Chemicals
Del Vel Chem Co.
Depth Ray
Ditch Witch
Dove Ventures Inc.
Downey Ridge Environmental
Dragon Products
Draincables Direct
DryLet LLC
Dultmeier Sales
Duracable Manufacturing
Dyna Flex Inc.
Dynablast
DynaLiner LLC
Dynamic Decals & Graphics, Inc.
Dynamic Filtration Limited
Dyna-Vac Equipment
E Z Onsite
Easy Kleen Pressure Systems Ltd.
Easy Liner
Eco Infrastructure Solutions
Ecological Laboratories Inc.
Eldon C. Stutsman, Inc.
Electric Eel Mfg.
EleMech, Inc.
Eljen Corporation
Environment One Corporation
Envirosight
Enviro-Tech of America, Inc.
Enz USA Inc.
Epps Products
Equipment Sales, LLC
E-Tank, Ltd./ E-Pump
EVAPAR
Explorer Trailers - McKee Technologies
EZTRAKR Systems
Famhost Apps
Federal Signal Environmental
Solutions Group
FerraTex
Fieldbook ERP
Fisher Labs
Five Peaks
FKC Co. Ltd.
Fleetmatics
Flo Trend Systems
FlowMark, LLC
FM Manufacturing Inc.
Forbest Products Co.
Ford Commercial Vehicles
Foremost
Forest River, Inc.
FORMADRAIN Inc.
Franklin Electric
Fruitland Manufacturing
Fuji Clean USA, LLC
Galbreath
Gamajet, part of the Alfa Laval Group
GapVax Inc.
Gardner Denver Water Jetting Systems Inc.
Gardner Denver Wittig
GE Oil & Gas - Roots Blowers
GEA Farm Technologies, Inc. (USA)
General Pipe Cleaners
General Pump
Geoflow, Inc.
German Pavilion/Federal Ministry
for Economic Affairs and Energy
GfG Instrumentation, Inc.
Giant Industries
Global Vacuum Systems, Inc.
Go Green Environmental Products
Go To Parts
Godwin, a Xylem Brand
Goldak Inc.
Gorlitz Sewer & Drain, Inc.
Gorman-Rupp Company
GPM Pump & Truck Parts, LLC
GPS Insight
Grease Guardian
Green Mountain International, LLC
Greener Planet Systems
GRU, LLC
H2 Technical Rescue Equipment
Hammelmann Corp.
HammerHead Trenchless Equipment
Hannay Reels Inc
Happy Feet
Harben Inc.
Hart Industries
Hathorn Corporation
Hauler Agent
HCP Pumps of America, Inc.
Hedstrom Plastics
Helix Laboratories Inc.
Hella, Inc.
Hermann Sewerin GmbH
Hermes Technologie
Hibon, Inc. (a division of Ingersoll Rand)
Hino Trucks
Hi-Vac Corporation
Hot Jet USA
Hurco Technologies Inc.
Hydra-Flex, Inc.
Hydra-Tech Pumps
Hydratron, Inc.
Hy-Flex Corporation
I.S.T. Services, Inc.
IBG HydroTech
Imperial Industries Inc.
Impreg International GmbH
IMS Robotics GmbH
In The Round Dewatering
Indiana Onsite Wastewater
Professionals Association
Infiltrator Systems Inc.
InfoSense, Inc.
Infrastructure Repair Systems, Inc.
Infrastructure Technologies - ITpipes
Innovative Equipment, LLC
InSight Mobile Data Inc.
Insight Vision Cameras
Integrated Vehicle Leasing / Financing
ITI Trailers & Truck Bodies Inc
J&J Chemical Co.
J. Hvidtved Larsen US
J.C. Gury Company, Inc.
Jack Doheny Companies
JAG Mobile Solutions
Jameson LLC
JD7
Jet Clean Tools USA Inc.
Jet Inc.
JeTech, Inc.
Jets Vacuum AS
Jetter Depot
Joe Johnson Equipment, Inc.
John Bean Jetters
Johnny’s Choice by Chempcorp
Joints Couplings
KeeVac Industries Inc.
KEG Kanalreinigungstechnik GmbH
Keith Huber Corporation
Kentucky Tank, Inc.
Kewanna Screen Printing
Kifco, Inc.
Kros International USA
Kroy Industries
Kuriyama of America, Inc.
LANSAS Products Mfd.
by Vanderlans & Sons, Inc.
LaPlace Equipment Co Inc.
Lely Manufacturing, Inc.
Lenzyme/Trap-Cleer Inc.
Liberty Financial Group, Inc.
Liberty Pumps
LIFTPLAQ
Linco-Precision, LLC
Liquid Environmental Solutions
Liquid Waste Industries
Liquid Waste Technology LLC
LMK Technologies
LMT Inc.
Lock America, Inc.
Locqus
Lodar Ltd.
Logan Clutch Corporation
Logiball Inc.
Longhorn Tank & Trailer
Ludwig Pfeiffer Hoch- und
Tiefbau GmbH & Co. KG
MacQueen Equipment Group
Madewell Products Corporation
Mailhot Industries
Mainline Backflow Products, Inc.
Masport Inc
Masterliner, Inc.
Material Motion, Inc.
MaxLiner USA
McLaughlin Group, Inc.
Medit Inc.
Meese Orbitron Dunne Company
Merrell Bros., Inc.
Mid-State Tank Co., Inc.
Midwest Vac Products LLC
Miller Pipeline
Milliken
Millner-Haufen Tool Company
Milwaukee Pump
Milwaukee Rubber Products Inc.
Mi-T-Machine
Mobile Hydraulic Equipment Co., LLC
Mobile Restroom Designs
Money In Motion
MONOFORM by Infratech
Moro USA
Mr. Rooter Corp.
MTC
MTech
Mud Technology International, Inc.
Murphy by Enovation Controls
MyTana Mfg. Co. Inc.
NASSCO, Inc.
National Joint Powers Alliance
National Precast Concrete Association
National Truck Center
National Vacuum Equipment
580 companies - list current as of January 19, 2015.
Nature Calls
NAWT - National Association of
Wastewater Technicians
Netafim USA
Nexstar Network, Inc.
NLB Corp.
Northeast Industrial Mfg
Norweco Inc.
NovaFlex Hose
NOWRA - National Onsite
Wastewater Recycling Association
NozzTeq‚ Inc.
NSF International
Nu Flow
NuConcepts
Oakmont Capital Services LLC
Oceanquip Cables, LLC
Ohio Electric Control, Inc.
Omega Liquid Waste Solutions
OMSI Transmissions, Inc.
One Biotechnology
Orenco Systems, Inc.
Otto Trading Inc.
PA SpA
Parson Environmental Products Inc.
Pat’s Pump & Blower
PC Scale Technologies
Pearpoint/SPX
Peinemann Equipment
Penn Valley Pump Co., Inc.
Penny Pockets
Pentair
People’s United Equipment Finance Corp.
Perma-Liner Industries LLC.
Petersen Products
Petrofield Industries
Phoenix USA Inc.
Picote Solutions
Pik Rite Inc.
PinPoint GPS Solutions Inc.
Pipe Lining Supply, Inc.
PipeHunter, Inc.
Pipeline Analytics
Pipeline Renewal Technologies
PipeLogix Inc.
Pipenology, LLC
Pipe-Robo-Tec USA
PipeTech Software
Piranha Hose Products
PIRIT Heated Hose
Plug-It Products
Polston Applied Technologies
Poly-Flow
PolyJohn Enterprises Corp.
Polylok Inc. / Zabel
PolyPortables, LLC
Porta Pro Chemical Company
Portable Sanitation Association International
POSM Software LLC
Powertrack International Inc.
Pow-R Mole
Premier Oilfield Equipment Co.
Premier Tech Aqua
Presby Environmental, Inc.
Pressure Lift Corporation
Presvac Systems, Ltd.
PRIME DRILLING GmbH
Prime Resins, Inc.
PrimeLine Products
Progress Tank
Proline Group AB
Pronal-USA, Inc.
ProPulse, A Schieffer Company
Protective Liner Systems
PSI Pressure Systems Corp
PUMPTEC
Qingdao Donghengli Industy
Equipment Co., Ltd.
Quadex / Interfit
Quik-Lining Systems, Inc.
R. Nesbit Portable Toilets
Rain for Rent
Ram Commercial
RapidView IBAK North America
Ratech Electronics, Ltd.
Rausch USA
Ravo Sweepers
RC Industries Inc.
RCS II Inc.
RecoverE
REED Manufacturing Company
Reelcraft Industries Inc.
Refractron
Reline America Inc.
Renssi
Resiplast US, Inc.
ReviewBuzz
RH2O North America Inc.
Rich Specialty Trailers
RIDGID
Ring-O-Matic
Rioned UK Limited
Ritam Technologies, LLC
RITEC GmbH
RKI Instruments, Inc.
Robinson Vacuum Tanks, Inc.
Robuschi & C.S.p.A.
Rochester Metal Products Corp
RODDIE Inc.
Roeda Signs & ScreenTech Imaging
Roll-Off Parts.com
RootX
Roth Global Plastics
ROTHENBERGER USA
RotoSolutions
RouteOptix Inc.
RS Technical Services Inc.
Rush Refuse Systems
Rush-Overland Manufacturing
Sabre Manufacturing
SAERTEX multiCom LP
Safe-T-Fresh
Safety Sewer Drain
Salcor, Inc.
Satellite Industries Inc.
Satellite Suites
Sauereisen, Inc.
Savatech Corp.
Scadata, Inc.
Scorpion Protective Coatings
Screenco Systems LLC
Sealing Systems Inc.
SECO Truck Inc.
See Water Inc.
Septic Maxx
Septic Products Inc.
Septic Services Inc.
SeptiTech
Septronics, Inc.
Service Roundtable
ServiceTitan
Sewer Equipment
Shamrock Pipe Tools Inc.
Shenzhen Schroder Industry Measure
& Control Equipment Co., Ltd.
Sherwin Williams
ShuBee
Sim/Tech Filter Inc.
SJE-Rhombus
Slewmaster Inc.
Slide-In Warehouse
SludgeHammer Group Limited
SnakeLiner
Soft-Pak
Solar LED Innovations, LLC
Sonetics Corporation
Source 1 Environmental
Southland Tool Mfg. Inc.
Spartan Tool LLC
Specialty B Sales
Splendor Fiberglass
Stamp Works
Standard Cement Materials, Inc.
Standard Equipment Company
Statewide Supply
StoneAge, Inc.
Strike Products
Sturgeon Tank & Equipment
Stutes Enterprises Systems
Subsurface Instruments
Sugino Corp.
Sunbelt Rentals
Super Products LLC
Superior Signal Company LLC
Supervac 2000
Surco Portable Sanitation Products
Surpresseur 4S Inc.
SVE Portable Roadway Systems, Inc.
T & T Tools, Inc.
t4 Spatial
Tank Track LLC
Tank Transport Trader
TankTec
TCF Equipment Finance
Terydon Inc.
The Strong Company
Thieman Tailgates, Inc.
Thompson Pump
Titan Logix Corp.
Topp Industries, Inc.
Trade-Serve
Trans Lease, Inc.
Transway Systems Inc.
Trelleborg Pipe Seals
Trenchless Solutions Inc.
TRIC Tools Inc.
Trillium Industrial Services
TRY TEK Machine Works, Inc.
TSF Co. Inc.
Tsurumi Pump
TT Technologies Inc.
Tuf-Tite Inc.
Turbo-Fog, Division of Kingscote Chemicals
Turtle Plastics
U.E.M.S.I.
Udor USA
UHRIG Kanaltechnik GmbH
Ultra Shore
UltraLav by Wells Cargo
Uncle Freddie’s Super Gloves
Under Pressure Systems, Inc.
US Fleet Tracking
US Jetting, LLC
USA BlueBook
USB-Sewer Equipment Corporation
VAC2GO
Vacall
Vac-Con Inc.
Vacutrux Limited
Vacuum Sales, Inc.
Vacuum Truck Rental
Vacuum Trucks of Canada
Vaporooter
VAR Co.
Vermeer
Veyance Technologies, Inc.
Vivax-Metrotech Corp.
Vogelsang
VT Hackney
Vu-Rite Video Inspection Systems, LLC
W.W. Williams
Wachs Utility Products
Wager Company Inc.
Walex Products Company, Inc.
Wallenstein Vacuum Pumps Elmira Machine Industries
Wastequip
WasteWater Education 501(c)3
Water Environment Federation
Waterblasting Technologies
WC Leasing
Weber Industries, Inc. (Webtrol)
Wee Engineer Inc.
Wells Fargo Equipment Finance
Western Equipment Finance
Western Mule Cranes (D & S Sales)
Westmoor Ltd.
Whirlygig, Inc.
Wiedemann & Reichhardt GmbH
Wieser Concrete Products, Inc.
Wohler USA
Zhejiang Danau Industries Ltd.
Zoeller Pump Company
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and taking the necessary precautions is the key to protecting yourself.
Since the ebola virus outbreak in West Africa made headlines, many
in the wastewater industry have asked about the potential for a variety
of communicable diseases to spread through contact with human
waste during the cleaning, maintenance and repair of sanitary drain
and sewer lines.
Those questions will be answered at the 2015 Water & Wastewater
Equipment, Treatment & Transport Show. Dr. Adrianus Vlugman,
World Health Organization senior advisor on water, sanitation and
environmental health, will speak Feb. 26 at 1 p.m. in Rooms 133-135
at the Indiana Convention Center as part of an extensive series of
WWETT Show speakers and seminars.
Vlugman will provide a general overview covering the survival and
life expectancy of communicable diseases in water and wastewater.
Among other topics, he will cover:
• Safety precautions to consider when handling water and wastewater.
• The likelihood of communicable diseases to be spread or passed
through both centralized wastewater plants and decentralized
onsite wastewater systems.
• Whether there is a concern for the spread of communicable
diseases through land application of properly treated sewage,
biosolids or septage.
The talk on the transfer of communicable diseases is free and open
to anyone.
If you would like to attend the WHO program,
fill out the online registration form at
www.wwettshow.com/who.
Water & Wastewater Equipment, Treatment & Transport (WWETT) Show
Feb. 23-26, 2015 | Indiana Convention Center, Indianapolis
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IT’S TIME
TO TALK
Focused conversations can foster a workplace filled with engaged
and motivated employees who are less prone to jump ship
By Ken Wysocky
D
We invite readers to offer
ideas for this regular column,
designed to help municipal and
utility managers deal with day-today people issues like motivation,
team building, recognition and
interpersonal relationships.
Feel free to share your secrets
for building and maintaining a
cohesive, productive team. Or
ask a question about a specific
issue on which you would like
advice. Call editor Luke Laggis
at 800/257-7222, or email
[email protected].
Smith suggests something very simple: a conversation — five of them, to be
isengaged employees are a lot like clogged sewer lines: They don’t work
exact. And we’re not talking about small talk around the water cooler or
very well. And if national surveys are correct, your workforce probably
an office cubicle. Instead, managers should engage their direct reports in
needs a powerful bit of waterjetting, metaphorically speaking.
Before you launch into an impassioned hey-my-workforce-isn’t-like-that
periodic discussions in five different areas during the course of a year.
protest, let’s consider the facts as outlined by a recent Gallup poll: Only 30
“The answer to the question of how you engage disengaged employees
percent of employees in the United States are engaged at work, meaning
is communication,” Seeling Smith asserts. “Most managers don’t sit down
they’re committed to their jobs and are positively contributing to the orgaand talk enough to their staffs. And if they do, they often don’t know what
nizations for which they work.
to talk about.”
That leaves 70 percent of employees disengaged. Even worse, the survey
For managers who fall into that category, here are five things Seeling
shows 18 percent of them are what’s known as actively disengaged, which is
Smith suggests you FOCUS on:
the equivalent of a fully clogged line as compared to a partially blocked pipe.
1. Feedback. One of the most effective things managers can do to motiActively disengaged employees are defined as unhappy and unproductive —
vate employees is also the simplest: provide positive feedback — simply give
and they’re most likely spreading negpraise where praise is due. But avoid
“A lot of the practices, polices and procedures — the generic blanket statements like, “Great
ativity to co-workers like a bad flu virus.
Equally disturbing is the estimated
job on that mainline-cleaning project.”
very cultures of organizations — are built around
cost of all this disengagement: $450 to
Instead, Seeling Smith suggests that
policies developed during the Industrial Revolution.
$550 billion worth of lost productivity.
you specifically cite details in their perWe hire people for their innovation skills, then treat
Yup, you read that correctly; that’s “b”
formance that specifically contributed
them like they’re making widgets on a factory floor.”
as in “billions.” And if that isn’t enough
to the project’s success.
to make you sit up and take notice, con“Truly effective praise needs to be
– Kim Seeling Smith
sider another ominous cloud on the
specific enough that employees can
horizon: a workforce that’s rapidly shrinking as Baby Boomers retire, and
model that behavior in the future,” she says. “It really makes a ton of differmuch fewer Gen X and Gen Y cohorts available to take their places. In other
ence because it engages the employees’ brains and gives them specific things
words, competition to hire great employees in the next 10 to 15 years will rise
to hone in on. If you’re not specific, employees might think you’re praisto unprecedented levels.
ing them for something you’re not actually praising them for.”
“So we have a perfect storm of issues in play — low employee engage2. Objectives. Annual goal setting that’s developed with employee input
ment and a horrendously high threat of a global labor shortage,” says Kim
is a valuable engagement kick-starter because it tells employees exactly what
Seeling Smith, the founder and chief executive officer of Ignite Global
they need to do to be successful as well as how their success will be mea(www.igniteglobal.com), a management consulting firm. Seeling Smith is
sured. It also gives employees a sense of where they fit into an organization
also an expert in improving employee engagement and productivity, as well
and why their job is important, says Seeling Smith.
as the author of “Mind Reading for Managers: 5 FOCUSed Conversations to
“But true objectives shouldn’t be tasks, they should be outcomes,” she
Increase Employee Engagement and Productivity.”
notes. As an example, she cites a receptionist who’s given job objectives
“And if you won’t be able to hire the ones you need, you’ve got to love
such as answer calls at a switchboard and greet office visitors. “That doesn’t
the ones you’re with,” she continues. “Human capital has indeed become the
tell her anything about how to be successful,” she points out. Instead, tell
most valuable capital to organizations, and companies that don’t understand
the receptionist things such as how you want the phone to be answered,
this – and don’t make changes to engage and retain their employees — will
within how many minutes guests should be greeted and within how many
suffer dramatic hits to market share. It might even be their death knell.”
rings phone calls should be answered. “That gives the employee something
tangible with which to measure their performance and makes them feel
Start the conversation
more important, too,” Seeling Smith observes.
So how do managers begin to get listless employees motivated? Seeling
3. Career development. More than ever before, employees want to know
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the path they need to take to advance within an organization. “It’s now the
No. 1 or 2 concern for employees,” Seeling Smith notes. “People want to
know how they can learn, grow and develop in a career.” Another factor
that has changed: how career development is defined.
“Conventional wisdom says that development must be vertical, but that’s
not true in the social age we live in, where not everyone is interested in
climbing the corporate ladder,” she explains. The
bottom line? Don’t think about career development
as a succession of jobs that leads to a specific goal
or destination, mainly because things change so fast
these days.
“Instead, think of career development as a collection of experiences designed to equip employees
for a future role or that helps them grow and develop
professionally,” she suggests.
Too many managers avoid the career development conversation because they typically have small
staffs. And if a manager has no plans to retire soon,
they don’t see any benefit in talking about career
paths because opportunities seem limited. But using
this different paradigm, which focuses on experiences
rather than promotions, gives managers more options.
“And having that discussion, in turn, engenders
employee trust and loyalty,” Seeling Smith adds. “So
they’ll work for you longer than they normally would.”
4. Underlying motivators. Managers also should
talk to employees about what motivates them to stay
engaged and go the extra yard. For example, ask them
how they prefer to receive recognition. It might sound
like a minor thing, but it’s not, Seeling Smith notes.
“The old adage about praising in public and
counseling in private is not always the best
approach,” she says. “Some people don’t like to be
praised in public.”
Most managers would be shocked at what really
motivates employees to work at peak performance.
It may sound counterintuitive, but studies have shown
that many employees value things like autonomy,
flexible work hours, work/life balance, setting and
achieving goals, and intellectual challenges much
greater than more money and bonuses.
“Ask most managers what motivates employees
and they’ll tell you it’s all about the money,” she
points out. “But that’s actually so far down the scale
it’s not even funny.”
5. Strengths. After working with employees to
analyze and understand their strengths, managers
can increase engagement by incrementally shifting
employees’ job responsibilities so they spend more
time playing to those strengths rather than trying to
shore up weaknesses, Seeling Smith says.
“The reality is that most people are good at doing
some things and bad at doing others,” she explains.
“It’s better if you allow them to concentrate on what
they do well and mitigate their weaknesses. I’m not talk-
ing about making wholesale changes to their jobs, but rather just changing their
focus for a few hours a week.”
Conventional wisdom holds that working to improve weaknesses is a good
technique for improving job performance. But in fact, some studies show
that people who are already great at something can get exponentially better
(continued)
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THE HUMAN SIDE
by working on improving that skill, while similar efforts aimed at improving
weaker skills don’t yield the same dramatic improvements, she says.
It’s not rocket science
Why don’t managers already hold these kinds of conversations with
employees? After all, it’s not rocket science, right? Seeling Smith agrees it’s
not, but notes that most people are promoted to managerial positions because
of their experience/seniority and technical skills, but don’t receive any
training about what it takes to be a great manager.
“We still use industrial-age practices to hire and manage social-age employees,” she explains. “A lot of the practices, polices and procedures — the
very cultures of organizations — are built around policies developed during the Industrial Revolution. We hire people for their innovation skills,
then treat them like they’re making widgets on a factory floor. In other
words, the very policies and practices that many organizations have established are diametrically opposed to engaging and facilitating the type of
work we need from our employees.”
So go ahead and start having some conversations with your employees.
Even if it feels uncomfortable at first, the benefits that await — engaged,
motivated and loyal employees who work as smoothly as a freshly cleaned
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FOCUS: STORM
Virginia Beach Wastewater
Collections Bureau workers Surjell
Brickhouse (left) and Marcus Scott
set up their Vac-Con combination
truck to clean a sewer main in a
residential area of Virginia Beach.
(Photography by Lee Poe)
NO MORE WAITING
Proactive approach to operation and maintenance helps
Virginia Beach cut overflows and blockages in its huge, aging system
By Erik Gunn
T
welve years ago the City of
Virginia Beach got a wakeup call.
Its name was Hurricane Isabel.
The 2003 storm was the worst in
recent memory and led to severe
power outages, according to Tom
Leahy, Virginia Beach director of
public utilities.
The power loss didn’t just turn
out the lights and shut off refrigerators. It severely hampered the city’s
sanitary sewer system.
With more than 10 percent of
the city’s sanitary sewer collections
system consisting of force mains, Virginia Beach relies on an extensive
collection of pumping stations to
move its sewer flows. When Isabel
hit, only 15 of the 390 sewer pumping stations had built-in generators.
The utilities department realized
“that we were going to have to spend
a lot more money adding genera-
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tors to these sewer pump stations.”
The experience helped Virginia
Beach turn around its sewer system
operations and maintenance practices — moving from a reactive
approach to a proactive one.
The aftermath of the hurricane
wasn’t the only reason for the change
in direction. And Leahy emphasizes
it’s still a work in progress.
“Our goal is a sustainable operation in which we’re able to keep up
with the aging of the system,” Leahy
says. “We’re not quite there yet.”
SSOs and blockages
For several decades, Virginia
Beach grew rapidly — first with the
merger of Princess Anne County
and the Town of Virginia Beach, and
then as the local population soared.
As the city grew, so did its sanitary
sewer system — mostly through new
development, but also with the
extension of public sanitary sewer
systems into neighborhoods that
had lacked the service and by
acquiring old, failing private systems
within the city’s boundaries.
Then the growth tapered off and
the population leveled off. The city
is currently home to about 440,000
people. By the turn of the millennium, says Leahy, “We came to realize that a lot of the infrastructure
built by developers and deeded over
to the city was now getting old — it
was wearing out.”
A major symptom of problems
was an increasing number of sewer
system blockages and sanitary sewer
overflows. “Our blockages and SSOs
were increasing every single year,”
Leahy says. “My predecessor, Clarence Warnstaff, consulted with Jim
Sarver, manager of the operations
division, and they initiated a cleaning program.”
(continued)
PROFILE:
Virginia Beach (Va.)
Public Utilities,
Wastewater
Collections Bureau
POPULATION SERVED:
440,000
SERVICE AREA:
City of Virginia Beach, Va.
FLOWS:
49.6 mgd average;
78 mgd design
INFRASTRUCTURE:
131,996 connections; 1,500
miles of gravity mains; 180
miles of force mains; 408
pump stations
WEBSITE:
www.vbgov.com/government/
departments/public-utilities
Meanwhile, the federal EPA proposed Capacity, Management, Operation and Maintenance (CMOM)
standards in 2001. Although the federal government never formally
implemented those standards, Virginia Beach officials thought they
made a lot of sense, Leahy says. “We
started working toward implementing the spirit of those.”
Then came the hurricane.
Immediately after Isabel, 90 percent
of the sewer pumping stations had
no power. Five days after the storm,
more than 30 percent of the 390 stations were still without power.
“For 30 years before that, the longest power outages the city had suffered [during a hurricane] was for a
day or two,” says Leahy. “It was nothing like we had ever dealt with before.”
Pump up the volume
The system consists of 1,500
miles of gravity sanitary sewer mains
and 180 miles of sewer force mains.
Virginia Beach has added 18
pump stations since Isabel, bringing the utility’s total to 408. But with
an average age of 30 years across
the system, many of its stations are
more than 40 years old, dating back
to the 1960s and ’70s, the city’s big
growth period.
Each station is a fairly complex
Virginia Beach crew members
(from left) Norm Doyle, Duane
Gilchrist and Daniel Lane set up
an emergency generator at one
of the city’s 408 pump stations.
“We’ve put a lot of resources into
our sewer pumping stations —
rebuilding and rehabbing them,
cleaning them on a regular basis,”
Lane says.
Scheduled maintenance
The capital budget increase was
part of a broader program begun
in 2007. That year the Hampton
Roads Sanitary District, which
treats the region’s sanitary sewage,
signed a consent order with the
EPA. The 14 communities sending flows to the district, including
Virginia Beach, signed as well,
agreeing to increase capital invest-
“We’ve put a lot of resources into our sewer pumping
stations — rebuilding and rehabbing them, cleaning
them on a regular basis.”
The Virginia Beach force main
crew backfills a trench after
installing a new insert valve on a
force main. The valves are
installed while lines are still
under pressure.
– Daniel Lane
electrical and mechanical facility,
and they all require regular
maintenance.
After cleaning up from Isabel,
the sewer utility began stocking up
on generators, both permanently
installed and portable units, says
Daniel Lane, utility mechanic supervisor in the city’s Sanitary Sewer
Pumping Station Bureau.
The utility also undertook a project to upgrade the pump stations
— part of a larger series of capital
projects that began seven years ago.
As stations are replaced or rebuilt,
dry well stations are being converted
to submersible stations, which cost
less, Leahy explains.
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ment and improve maintenance.
Virginia Beach, assisted by a consultant and guided by the CMOM
standards, implemented a systematic approach to inspection and
maintenance, explains Daren Williams, public utilities operations and
maintenance engineer.
Adding up all the assets in the
system — valves, air vents, pumps
and so on — the utility established
how often and over what period of
time it would operate each asset.
“For valves, we assumed that we
would operate all valves within a
year,” Williams says. “For manual air
vents, we decided to operate all vents
within the system in five years.”
(continued)
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With a sanitary sewer system that has more than 10 percent force
mains powered by hundreds of pump stations, Virginia Beach, Va., has had
to find new approaches to some problems.
For instance, valve replacement can be a challenge. Installing a new
valve in a sewer line normally requires shutting down the line while the
repair is completed.
But Virginia Beach has been using insert valve technology. “That’s a
very, very neat tool to use,” says Elijah Smith, assistant superintendent for
the city’s Wastewater Collections Bureau. “We don’t have to shut down
the pump station and we don’t have to shut down the line. You put the
line in with everything still under pressure.”
Tom Leahy, director of public utilities, says the city’s approach to valve
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The Virginia Beach Public Utilities team includes (from left)
Director Tom Leahy, Operations Manager Jim Sarver, and
engineers Daren Williams and Bradley M. Law.
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Working from those numbers,
the utility then calculated monthly
and annual goals to keep it on track
with exercising every asset within the
time allotted.
Utility employees reviewed the
history of sewer pipe structural
defects, such as bellies and insufficient grades, that would lead to blockages. They viewed CCTV videos to
further analyze the causes of SSOs.
Their findings helped establish a
cleaning cycle, which then set the
pace for monthly cleaning goals for
gravity sewer mains in the Virginia
Beach Hot Spot cleaning program.
“After a few years of operating
and maintaining the system with preventive maintenance goals, we realized that we responded to fewer
emergencies,” says Williams. Other
aspects of the system were added to
the program, such as cleaning vacuum collection tanks at least twice
a year in parts of the community
with heavy tourist traffic.
Force mains 4 inches or less in
diameter that send flows to gravity
sewer manholes are flushed every
three months — once a quarter —
as part of a bypass pumping program implemented to reduce
emergency repairs. Previously, he
explains, pumps frequently had to
be repaired or replaced in lift sta-
tions with small force mains, or the
mains had to be cut open and
cleaned due to clogging.
Similar goals were set for other
aspects of maintenance, such as
replacing backup batteries at sewer
pump stations every five years. The
goal for cleaning gravity mains is
65,000 to 75,000 feet per month.
The goals were fed into the utility’s computer maintenance management system, which generates
monthly work orders that are distributed to superintendents. As work
orders are completed, superintendents review them to help keep the
system accountable, Williams says. In
its annual report, the utility logs the
number of lateral repairs, main
repairs and pump station repairs for
the year; all that data is reported
annually to the Virginia Department
of Environmental Quality.
Inspection, cleaning,
repair and replacement
But probably the biggest single
change was in how the city deployed
manpower.
“We used to have 10 repair crews,”
says Elijah Smith, assistant superintendent for the Wastewater Collections Bureau. “What we decided to
do was focus more on finding and
fixing [problems].”
Virginia Beach reorganized the crews into
maintenance crews. Each crew of two people is
assigned to a Vacall sewer-cleaning truck. The city
has five trucks as well as three dedicated videoinspection trucks.
Now as inspections uncover bottlenecks in
the lines, crews will clean them out immediately
if they can without much trouble. “We don’t wait
until we have major problems,” Smith says.
The utility’s annual cleaning goal calls for
covering about 1 million feet per year, about 10
percent of the system. “It’s had a tremendous
reduction in our SSOs and in our stoppages,”
Leahy says.
“We’ve gone from almost no compliance to twothirds compliance.”
Dramatic results
Between the capital investment, the find-andfix policy, the grease-reduction program, root control and regularly scheduled cleaning, “it’s had
a phenomenal improvement on both our overflows and our sewer blockages,” Leahy says. It’s
hard to say which gets the most credit, he adds.
“They’re all contributing at the same time.”
“Find and fix” is more expensive in the short
term, he observes, but it also helps prevent bigger problems. “I can’t argue with the results. Our
SSOs have really plummeted.”
SSOs were once in the neighborhood of 200
a year. “These days we are always under 20,” Leahy
says. And in 2013, the number was a mere dozen.
“We’ve dropped down to less than one SSO per
100 miles of line.” F
Attention to cause
The reorganization has enabled crews to take
a closer look at causes of particular problems.
“It used to be if someone responded to a blockage and cleared the lateral and there was grease
there, it was just reported as a grease blockage,”
Leahy says. And if the real cause was some other
defect, it might go undetected, requiring a return
trip when the problem recurred.
The practice now is to televise the problem
line as the first step so crews can be sure of what
the real source of the blockage or other problem
is. “Now the philosophy is to get in there, fix it
and never have to come back to this address
again,” Leahy says.
At the same time, every call becomes an opportunity to look for more problems. “Every time we
have a blockage or SSO, we go out and TV the
line upstream and downstream of the area,” Leahy
says. Any defects encountered are slated for repair
or replacement as soon as possible — even if they
weren’t responsible for the problem that led to
the call in the first place.
Virginia Beach has also stepped up enforcement of existing regulations requiring food service establishments to pretreat their wastewater,
instituting a program of inspections to confirm
they are following the rules and are properly maintaining their grease traps. From less than 5 percent compliance when the program started, “now
we’re in the 60 to 79 percent range,” Leahy says.
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By Ted DeBoda, P.E.
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ASSCO is proud to announce
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Osborn steps into this role with a
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As the senior applications manager
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The Triple Tap tapping sleeve from Total Piping Solutions is available in a low- or high-range shell before fitting on the pipe. The low range
shell typically covers IPS through AC Class 150, and the high range shell
DIP through AC Class 200. It has Type 304 stainless steel construction with
no-gall stainless steel bolts. The gasket is an NSF 61 registered NBR compound for water or sewage. It is available in diameters from 4 through 16
inches, meets AWWA C223-13 for tapping sleeves, and carries a pressure
rating up to 250 psi with test to 350 psi. 716/372-0160; www.tps.us.
Asahi/America Poly-Flo
The Poly-Flo co-extruded double-containment piping system from Asahi/
America is available in black PE and euro grey PP-R. It is ideal for installations
with space constraints and systems where thermal expansion and contraction
are present. The system includes full pressure, drainage and machined fittings. This SDR-designed system is available in 1 by 1 1/2-, 2 by 3- and 4 by
6-inch sizes, and operates up to 150 psi at 68 degrees F. Black PE is suited for
outside, above-ground applications because of its UV resistance, and it performs well in underground installations because of its resistance to crack propagation. Euro grey PP-R is ideal for applications running at higher temperatures
due to its high pressure rating. The system is available with manual and lowpoint leak detection sensors. 800/343-3618; www.asahi-america.com.
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5 Environment One Corporation iota OneBox
The iota OneBox telemetry system from Environment One Corporation enables control of a fleet of pressure sewer grinder pumps from an
office desktop or a smartphone. It seamlessly integrates into SCADA networks to provide information on tank storage capacities, power failures,
blockages and faults. Diagnostics for individual properties, streets or whole
networks are available in real time. It enables remote control and monitoring of individual grinder pumps; alerts even before the customer becomes
aware of any faults; trend analysis, report generation and peak flow demand
determinations; and flow smoothing and maximized efficiency of downstream infrastructure. 518/579-3068; www.eone.com.
Underground Solutions fusible PVC pipe
Fusible PVC pipe products from Underground Solutions are available in diameters from 4 to 36 inches, including fusible C-900, fusible C-905
and FPVC. They produce a fused monolithic, fully restrained, gasket-free,
leak-free piping system ideal for trenchless (horizontal directional drilling,
pipe bursting and sliplining) or conventional open-cut installations. The
combination of standard fittings as well as less weight and more flow for a
given pressure class make it ideal for most pipeline projects. 858/679-9551;
www.undergroundsolutions.com.
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PIPE PARTS/FITTINGS
The Level View controller from PRIMEX controls two or three constant or variable-speed pumps for pump up (water) and pump down (wastewater) applications. Its color touch screen can be easily read in direct sunlight
and provides on/off level control, speed control, pump alternation, flow monitoring, data logging, alarm logging and historical trending. An SD card provides data storage and download capability. Connectivity options provide flexibility
for SCADA/BAC integration, as well as a plug-and-play interface to the Pump
Watch Web-based monitoring system. 844/477-4639; www.primexcontrols.com.
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3Ford Meter Box Handlebolt
The Handlebolt from Ford Meter Box doubles as a handle, conveniently attaching to the end of the starter bolt to assist with installation and handling by providing leverage when pulling the clamp together.
It is available on the company’s F style repair clamps. 800/826-3487;
www.fordmeterbox.com.
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7 RELINER/Duran Inside Drop
Inside Drops from RELINER/Duran extend pump life in lift stations
by preventing aerated influent from being directly drawn into the pumps, causing cavitation. The drop pipe should always be extended below the low limit
level and cut to follow the slope of the base fillet. If there is no fillet, cut the
pipe at 45 degrees, and maintain a distance from the floor or fillet of one pipe
diameter. This creates a diffuser by directing the flow back against the structure, de-aerating the influent. Do not direct the incoming flow toward the
pumps. This arrangement is easy to maintain, as there is nothing to collect rags
and debris. It can be cleaned from above. 800/508-6001; www.reliner.com.
8 Smith Flow Control USA EasiDrive
The EasiDrive portable valve actuator from Smith Flow Control USA
allows for valves to be operated without dedicated valve actuators. One person can efficiently drive multiple valves with a single tool, reducing fatigue
and injury risk and saving cost and time. Its reaction kit prevents torque kickback, ensuring valve movement is always fully controlled and preventing operator injury and fatigue. The variable torque output feature, which prevents
excessive torque being applied, ensures proper and safe valve operation. No
permanent power supply is required, and it is suitable for all climates. It has
wide-band torque capability with variable torque adjustment. It can be powered by air, electricity or battery. 859/578-2395; www.smithflowcontrol.com.
PUMPS
9 Flygt Experior
The Experior wastewater pumping system from Flygt – a Xylem
Brand has self-cleaning Flygt N-technology that ensures efficient pumping.
Its Adaptive N-hydraulics allow the impeller to move axially upward when
necessary to permit bulky or tough debris to pass through, reducing stress
on the shaft, seals and bearings. It has a preprogrammed SmartRun pump
control unit that provides the benefits of variable-speed pumping. Its premium-efficiency motor is small and light, yet durable, with a long bearing
and motor lifetime. 704/409-9700; www.flygtus.com.
10 Franklin Electric FPS NC Series
Submersible centrifugal FPS NC Series non-clog pumps from Franklin Electric are available in 3- and 4-inch 125 ANSI flange discharge connections,
in 3, 5, 7.5 and 10 hp models with heads up to 66 feet and flows up to 610 gpm.
They can pass up to 3-inch solids, retrofit to any standard rail system and contain replaceable internal components. Ductile iron casted impellers provide
added corrosion resistance and handle rigid debris. A Fluoroelastomer motor
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11 Giant Industries GP5100
For applications that have limited space, the GP5100 series compact-design industrial triplex plunger pump from Giant Industries is rated
up to 4,000 psi and up to 43 gpm. It comes with an SAE-C four-bolt mount
and a hollow shaft, which will accept standard hydraulic motors. It is constructed with a nickel-plated spheroidal cast iron crankcase; drop-forged,
through-hardened, ground and polished crankshaft; bronze connecting
rods; sight glass; vented dipstick; hardened, ground and polished stainless
steel plunger bases; solid ceramic plungers; nitrile seals with fabric reinforcing; stainless steel valves; and nickel-plated spheroidal cast iron manifold.
800/633-4565; www.giantpumps.com.
12 Gorman-Rupp Company ReliaPrime
The ReliaPrime emergency bypass station from Gorman-Rupp
Company has a 6-inch Super T Series pump capable of passing 3-inch spherical solids. A soundproof, lightweight aluminum enclosure has lockable
door panels that can be removed for maintenance. The unit is a complete
backup package, ready for hookup. 419/755-1011; www.grpumps.com.
13 Goulds Water Technology Series e-SV
The Series e-SV stainless steel vertical multistage pump by Goulds
Water Technology - a Xylem brand is offered in 11 models with flow rates
of up to 800 gpm and heads up to 1,150 feet. It has standard NEMA meters
that support 0.5 to 75 hp and have a temperature range of -20 to 250 degrees
F. The design is easy to maintain and enables the removal of the mechanical seal without having to detach the motor, reducing repair time by up to
50 percent. 866/325-4210; www.goulds.com.
14 Hammelmann Corp. HDP-196
The HDP-196 sewer pump from Hammelmann Corp. has flows
up to 160 gpm and pressures of 3,200 psi. It has a compact footprint and
integral reduction gear, and is available in horizontal or vertical models
with a reversible pump head, central or side suction connection, discharge
connections on both sides, left- or right-hand driveshaft, and operation at
any angle. The water end is suitable for recycled water with high-grade solid
ceramic plungers, wear-resistant valve seats, low flow velocity over suction
and discharge valves, packing seal sets within rust-resistant stainless steel
sleeves, a slow plunger speed, pressurized oil lubrication system, and clockwise or counterclockwise rotation. It offers easy servicing with reversible
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enclosure sealing system improves chemical and temperature resistance, while
a double-row ball lower bearing offers ideal loading and wear characteristics. It
has a field-adjustable wear plate. 800/701-7894; www.franklinengineered.com.
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valve seats, suction and discharge valves that use identical components,
maintenance without removal of suction and pressure lines, service access
at the front and above the unit, and fixed valve housing accessible via lightweight cover plates. 800/783-4935; www.hammelmann.com.
15 InviziQ Pressure Sewer System
The InviziQ Pressure Sewer System utilizes grinding and pumping to move sewage to treatment facilities, no matter the terrain, slope, environmental sensitivity of the area or complex topography of the region. It
has a dry well design that delivers clean access to the system motor and
other working parts, increasing safety for contractors. Network monitoring
and control is built into every system and gives users a host of diagnostic
resources for system management. 281/854-0300; www.inviziq.com.
16 Liberty Pumps LSG-Series Omnivore
The LSG-Series Omnivore grinder pump from Liberty Pumps
has V-Slice cutter technology with a hardened stainless steel cutting system
that aggressively shreds jeans, shop rags, sanitary napkins and other difficult solids into fine slurry with little jamming. It has a one-piece cast iron
body, quick-disconnect power cord, stainless steel impeller and dual-shaft
seals. Complete predesigned grinder systems are available in a variety of
basin sizes. 800/543-2550; www.libertypumps.com.
17 Moyno EZstrip Transfer Pump
The EZstrip Transfer Pump from Moyno provides a quick and
easy way to disassemble, de-rag and maintain a PC pump in place. It offers
direct access to the wear parts and rotating assemblies without affecting the
operational parameters. Its full drive train, including the rotor, stator, shaft,
rod and seal, can be removed in minutes with no electrical disconnection
required. Suction and discharge ports remain connected to the pipe work,
eliminating dismantling lengths. Low running speeds reduce wear for a
long working pump life. It requires only a wrench and an Allen key to maintain. 877/486-6966; www.moyno.com.
18 Vertiflo Pump Co. 1600
The 1600 vortex close-coupled horizontal-end suction pump from
Vertiflo Pump Co. is available in cast iron, 316 stainless steel fitted, all 316
stainless steel, Alloy 20 and CD4MCu. Capacities range up to 1,600 gpm,
heads of 170 feet tdh and temperatures of 250 degrees F. It has back-pullout construction, a fully recessed vortex impeller and external impeller
adjustment. 513/530-0888; www.vertiflopump.com.
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VALVES
19 APCO ASU Combination Air Valve
DeZURIK APCO ASU Combination Air Valve from DeZURIK Water
Controls are single-body combination valves with an air release and air/vacuum mechanism to deal with media containing grit, solids and grease. They
provide varied and predictable airflow over a wide range of air release conditions. A large diameter air/vacuum disc provides high-volume airflow for rapid
venting during pipeline filling and allows high volumes of air to enter the
pipeline during draining. During normal pipeline flow conditions, the dualrange air release prevents air buildup and resultant flow restrictions under
changing conditions and through the full flow range. It is available in 1- to
4-inch sizes with all stainless steel construction and meets the performance
requirements of AWWA C512 standard. 320/259-2000; www.dezurik.com.
20 Mainline Backflow Products STRAIGHT-FIT
STRAIGHT-FIT valves from Mainline Backflow Products come in
3-, 4- and 6-inch sizes and are available in both PVC and ABS. They have a body
that is extendible to whatever depth required. The gate can be extended for
easy extraction as well. They have a Smart CURVE gate designed to allow a sewer
snake to feed and retract without catching on the gate itself. A cleat insert in
the body eases the feeding and retrieval of a snake without hanging up, reducing excessive wear on the body. An optional test gate can be used to pressure
test the system or isolate the property. 877/734-8691; www.backwatervalve.com.
21 Mueller Co. Gate Valve
The A-2361 all-ductile-iron-resilient wedge gate valve from
Mueller Co. operates at a working pressure of 350 psi. It is available in sizes
from 4 to 12 inches and has dual-purpose lifting lugs, a T-head bolt retention
design and pressure-assist wedge geometry. It is triple listed — meeting AWWA’s
C515 standards, UL listed, and FM approved. Lifting lugs provide alignment
for the valve box and accommodate straps or hooks. A nesting area for T-head
bolts on MJ connections prevents rotation during pipe installation. The pressure-assisted wedge design requires the same torque to seal at 350 psi as current valves do at 250 psi. 800/423-1323; www.muellercompany.com.
22 Red Valve Co. Type A Pinch Valve
The Type A Pinch Valve from Red Valve Co. / Tideflex Technologies has a full-port opening and straight-through flow path to eliminate turbulence when open. The two-piece body acts as a built-in pneumatic
actuator. Fabricated elastomer sleeves offer wear resistance and sealing on
entrapped debris. Double-wall and cone sleeves are available for abrasive
and high-pressure applications. 412/279-0044; www.redvalve.com.
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Series 365 AWWA Vic-Plug grooved-end eccentric plug valves from
Victaulic are designed to ANSI/AWWA standards. The body conforms to AWWA
C-509 standard end-to-end dimensions, while the grooved ends conform to
ANSI/AWWA C-606 rigid groove specifications. The valve is installed quickly
and easily with Style 31 couplings, Style 307 transition couplings or in combination with Style 341 Vic-Flange adapters. It ensures bubble-tight sealing up
to 175 psi as the plug cams into the seat. Bidirectional sealing to 25 psi is standard; full bidirectional sealing to 175 psi is also available. Self-lubricated stainless steel bearings with protective o-rings resist corrosion to prevent binding
and prolong valve life. They have adjustable chevron packing, multiple types
of manual operators, and a variety of body and plug coatings to meet specific
service requirements. They are available in 3- to 12-inch sizes. 610/559-3300;
www.victaulic.com. F
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JETTERS & JET VACS
Sewer Hose Guides
Aluminum
Grease
Penetrators
1/4"-15°..........$24.00
3/8"-15°..........$33.00
1/2"-25°..........$46.00
1/2"-25°LT ......$49.00
3/4"-12°..........$59.00
3/4"-12°LT ......$69.00
1"-12°.............$72.00
1"-12°LT .........$84.00
3/4" or 1"-17° .......$125.00
Truder
3/4" or 1"-17° .......$350.00
Shark
Aluminum Sand
3/4"-24°................$141.00
1"-17°/24° ............$156.00
1"-24°...................$141.00
Swivel
Joints
T-M® Style
90° or Straight, 6000 psi
3/4" & 1" ...............$198.00
1-1/4" ...................$210.00
1-1/2" ...................$560.00
2"..........................$807.00
1/8" ......................$37.00
1/4" ......................$41.00
3/8" ......................$45.00
1/2" ......................$57.00
3/4" ......................$91.00
1"....................... $116.00
Ball
Valves
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Style
3000 psi
1"..........................$227.00
TigerTail™ Style
3" x 36" .................$38.00
2" x 36" .................$38.00
Radial Bullet
Root Cutter
Assemblies
3/4"-18° or 35°.....$50.00
3/4"-18°/24° .........$53.00
1"-18° or 30°........$69.00
1"-15° or 30°........$69.00
1-1/4"-18 or 35° ...$85.00
1"-12°...................$73.00
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1-1/4" 2-way.........$226.00
4500 psi
3/8" 3-way ............$115.00
1/2" 3-way ............$160.00
3/4" 3-way ............$180.00
1" 3-way ...............$190.00
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w/flat blades................$1125.00
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CASE STUDIES
PIPELINE AND INFRASTRUCTURE
By Craig Mandli
Steel-reinforced polyethylene pipe used for
limited-space sewer and water main replacement
Problem:
Located in the suburbs of Fort Worth, Texas, the Lochwood Court residential housing community required replacing a water main and storm
sewer system located between houses, where spacing is tight.
Solution:
Wade Trim Inc. specified that DuroMaxx steel-reinforced polyethylene from Contech Engineered Solutions be used, with concrete pipe as
an alternate. The product is lightweight and its long 24-inch joints allow
for a quicker installation of the required 378 LF. The high-performance
15 psi joints provide a watertight joint while the profile provides a small
outer diameter, resulting in less trench excavation. The pipe can be installed
utilizing small equipment.
water outfall that stretched 1,200 feet into the Atlantic Ocean. Due to pressure from above wave action and compact bedding, the 1,300-foot outfall
required a rigid pressure pipeline. Hanson Pressure Pipe supplied 84-inch
E-301 pipe in 20-foot lengths. Burial depths ranged from 6 to 7 feet under
the ocean floor. Pipe bedding and backfill included 3 1/2 to 6 feet of bedding stone, topped with 1 1/2 feet of rip-rap stone and a top layer of 5 to
7 feet of armor stone.
RESULT:
The outfall, along with implementation of best management
practices, significantly improved stormwater quality. 972/262-3600;
www.hansonpressurepipe.com.
RESULT:
Nearby homeowners were satisfied, as the installation was kept to a
constrained site that avoided wrecking landscaping and encroaching
upon surrounding lawns. “The product was delivered on time, easy to
install and is functioning as designed,” says project engineer David
Speicher of Wade Trim Inc. “The use of this product expedited our project construction time and made it much easier to work between two
homes.” 800/338-1122; www.conteches.com.
Deep-water outfall used to improve
stormwater quality
Problem:
The shoreline of North Myrtle Beach, S.C., was being negatively impacted
by four outfalls that were not only an eyesore, but whose discharge led to
beach erosion along with pollutants that, following rain events, created
poor water quality in swimming areas, resulting in an increasing number
of beach advisories.
Solution:
The city decided to combine the existing outfalls into one 84-inch deep-
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Township eliminates cavitation in reservoir with
single-rolling diaphragm control valve
Problem:
Pittsfield Township, Mich., pumps water from a neighboring community to a storage tank that ranges between empty and 16 feet at full, resulting in a pressure drop anywhere between 7 to 70 psi. The existing plug valve
was not able to handle this flow ratio and caused cavitation that destroyed
two reducers.
INSIDE DROP SYSTEM
Solution:
They installed a single-rolling diaphragm actuated control valve with
anticavitation (AC) trim from Singer Valve to eliminate cavitation damage
without sacrificing other valves, changing processes or system dynamics.
The AC control valve contains two heavy stainless steel sliding cages that
maximize the full flow capacity. The first directs and contains the cavitation
recovery, allowing it to dissipate, while the second allows further control to
a level as low as atmospheric pressure downstream. The cages are engineered to meet the flow/pressure differential of the specific application.
RESULT:
The valve operates quietly and smoothly without cavitation. “The
Singer valve is a simple and efficient solution with minimal maintenance,” says Billy Weirich, Pittsfield Township utilities superintendent.
The valve continues to consistently modulate the flow into the tank
without any shutdown, creating consistent water flow. 604/594-5404;
www.singervalve.com.
by RELINER® / Duran Inc.
U.S.Patent 6074130 Canadian Patent 2269565
RELINER Drop Bowl
Drop Bowl
flexible coupling
RELINER Pipe Support
your pipe
RELINER Pipe Support
Drop Bowl with Hood
RELINER Pipe Support
your elbow
HDPE pipe used to replace long water main
Problem:
Fast-growing Lyon Township in Michigan required new potable-water
services. This extension line needed to cross under three wetland areas, a
drainage crossing, and near several residential and commercial areas with
little or no disruption.
Solution:
The township installed 11,307 linear feet of 14-inch SDR 11 high-density polyethylene water main from WL Plastics Corp., along with gate wells
and fire hydrants. The project was installed in a dedicated easement and
within the right-of-ways. Most of the project was horizontally drilled with
transitions to ductile iron through gate wells, hydrant outlets and gate
valve connections.
RESULT:
The piping provided a trouble- and leak-free system that resists corrosion and ground movements. It doesn’t promote biological growth,
so tuberculation effects were nullified and maintenance costs were
reduced. 682/831-2700; www.wlplastics.com. F
Stainless Pipe Support
Drop Bowl & Pipe Supports
Eliminate troublesome outside drops
Reduce maintenance
Simplify inspection
Clean from above
Install quickly
Simply bolts to manhole wall
Stop corrosion
Ideal for wet wells - Increase pump life
Made in the U.S.A.
www.reliner.com
800-508-6001
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Product
Spotlight
Jetter nozzle captures video
from 6- to 10-inch lines
By Ed Wodalski
T
he JetScan Mini video nozzle from Envirosight captures HD video
from 6- to 10-inch sewer lines. Like its big brother, the Mini provides
municipal crews with visual feedback to select appropriate cleaning
tools, troubleshoot backups, identify buried safety hazards and document
successful cleaning.
“It simply connects to the end of a jetter hose and you can run it up a
line,” says Jake Wells, marketing manager for Envirosight. “That’s especially
beneficial in Texas and California where 6-inch lines are more prevalent.”
As with the standard JetScan, the Mini attaches to 3/4- to 1 1/2-inch
hoses and records up to 8 hours of 72p HD MPEG video to an onboard 32
GB memory card, which can be removed for viewing on an iPad or compatible device.
“The nozzle will work off any jetter, whether it’s mounted to a cleaning
truck or a trailer jetter,” Wells says. “It allows you to be more efficient and
judicious with your use of more expensive technology. For example, if there’s
an emergency call about a blockage, a cleaning crew can troubleshoot it
rather than calling a CCTV truck. The camera also travels down the line at
a higher rate of speed than your typical crawler or push camera.”
Twin high-output LED lamps ensure bright, vivid footage, while rechargeable lithium-ion batteries provide up to four hours of continuous
operation.
When paired with the standard JetScan and optional roller arm, crews
have the ability to view lines from 6 to 24 inches in diameter.
“It’s a great tool for helping jetting crews get visual information from
underground without relying on other crews who have other priorities,” Wells
says. “The detachable camera also can be used with either nozzle body.”
The 6-inch video nozzle is available separately or as part of a complete
system. 866/936-8476; www.envirosight.com.
Water Cannon pressure washers
Pressure washers from Water Cannon meet or exceed 2014 EPA and California regulations relating to fuel tanks, vents and carbon canisters. The pressure washers feature low-permeation fuel tanks and fuel lines. Fuel caps vent to
the engine’s air cleaner rather than the atmosphere. Model 17H85 has a Honda
GX 690 electric start engine, 15-gallon fuel tank, roll cage protection and a TSP
General triplex plunger pump that delivers 4 gpm and 7,000 psi. 800/333-9274;
www.watercannon.com.
ClearSpan fabric building structures
Water Cannon 17H85
Pressure Washer
HD Buildings from ClearSpan Fabric Structures are available in gable-, roundstyle, and hybrid designs. They can be mounted as a freestanding structure or
affixed to other foundations. The buildings have a triple-galvanized structural steel
tubing frame and 12.5-ounce high-density polyethylene rip-stop fabric cover. Buildings start at 25 feet wide. 866/643-1010; www.clearspan.com.
ClearSpan Fabric Structures
General Pipe Cleaners
Gen-Eye SDW Monitor
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General Pipe Cleaners inspection system with Wi-Fi
The Gen-Eye SDW video inspection and location system from General
Pipe Cleaners features a Wi-Fi transmitter inside the command module that
sends video to a smartphone or tablet. A free app enables operators to view
and record video inspections from a range of 300 to 500 feet. Older SD systems can be upgraded with the Wi-Fi features. Weighing 12 pounds, the inspection system has a 10.4-inch LCD screen, built-in waterproof keyboard, integral
SD recorder and heavy-duty Pelican case. 800/245-6200; www.drainbrain.com.
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Some things simply outperform others.
Some things grow old gracefully; others not so much. Flowtite® FRP is made to stand the test of time.
It resists corrosion, inside and out. Maintenance-free, it outperforms and outlasts other pipe options.
You can specify Flowtite® FRP for a host of applications, including clean water, gravity and force main, open-cut
or trenchless, sliplining and microtunneling. It’s the versatile, economical choice you’re looking for. Rock on!
Don’t miss “Sliplining,” the latest in our popular Webinar series.
More information and sign-up here: www.ThompsonPipeGroup.com/Sliplining
1-225-658-6166
www.flowtitepipe.com
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Electric Eel D-5 drain-cleaning machine
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Pump Solutions Group
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Pump Solutions Group, manufacturer of pumps, systems and related flowcontrol products, named Karl Buscher
president. He had been president of PSG
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InfoSense receives technology award
InfoSense was a 2014 winner of the Use of Tech in Energy & Environment Award, which recognizes North Carolina companies and individuals
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Southland Tool certified ISO 9001-2008 compliant
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Cornell Pump promoted Ron Aceto to municipal market manager.
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Wastequip named among Best Places to Work
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Pipe Restoration Technologies receives patent
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WORTH NOTING
PEOPLE/AWARDS
EPTDESIGN, a California-based landscape architecture firm with offices
in Pasadena and Irvine, received a 2014 Quality of Life Design Merit Award
from the Southern California Chapter of the American Society of Landscape
Architects for the River Oaks Park project in San Jose. The project is a result
of a private-public partnership between the City of San Jose and the developers of Crescent Village. The 5-acre public park provides important community space for San Jose’s longtime residents and Silicon Valley’s expanding
job market. The project preserves existing mature trees on site, in addition
to featuring an innovative stormwater runoff system that highlights the beauty
and benefit of low-impact design.
The Jayhawk Boulevard Project on the University of Kansas campus received
a 2014 Sustainable Success Story Award from the Mid-America Regional Council. The award highlights projects that advance the three pillars of sustainability — social equity, economic vitality and environmental stewardship. The
Jayhawk Boulevard Project was honored for keeping sustainability in mind
“by improving transit stops, providing green solutions for stormwater management, creating additional places for student interaction and green space,
and reviving the historic landscape and street canopy.”
Mark Jaconski and Joe Jaconski, owners of Stanley’s True Value Hardware
Store in Roxborough, Pa., were honored as Stormwater Pioneers by the Philadelphia Water Department. The Stormwater Pioneers Program is an initiative established to recognize Philadelphia property owners, developers and
designers for their innovation and dedication to better managing stormwater runoff. In 2010 the Jaconski brothers embarked on a plan to build a new,
larger building on the existing site of their family-owned, 66-year-old hardware store. Faced with the new challenge of stormwater on their larger property, they called upon the Ruggiero Plante Land Design Company in Manayunk
to assist them with creating a system to manage their water efficiently and
environmentally.
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
American Society of Civil Engineers
The ASCE is offering the following courses:
• March 5-6 – Leadership Development for the Engineer, Cincinnati
• March 12-13 – Computer Workshop, Reston, Va.
• March 12-13 – Pumping Systems Design for Civil Engineers,
Baltimore
• March 19-20 – Financial Management for the Professional Engineer,
Orlando, Fla.
• March 26-27 – Storm Sewer System Design Using SWMM, Las Vegas
Visit www.asce.org.
Wisconsin
The University of Wisconsin Department of Engineering-Professional
Development is offering the following courses:
• March 23-24 – Using WinSLAMM v.10.1: Meeting Urban Stormwater
Management Goals, Madison
• April 13-14 – Advanced Modeling Using HEC-RAS, Madison
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CALENDAR
March 30-April 1
American Water Resources Association Spring Conference: Water for Urban
Areas, Los Angeles Airport Hilton, Los Angeles.Visit www.awra.org.
April 12-15
American Public Works Association North American Snow Conference, DeVos
Place, Grand Rapids, Mich.Visit www.apwa.net.
June 7-10
American Water Works Association Annual Conference and Exposition, Anaheim,
Calif. Call 303/347-6181 or visit www.awwa.org.
July 26-29
American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers International Conference, New Orleans.Visit www.asabe.org.
Aug. 2-6
StormCon North American Surface Water Quality Conference & Expo, Austin,
Texas.Visit www.stormcon.com.
Aug. 30-Sept. 2
American Public Works Association International Public Works Congress and
Exposition, Phoenix Convention Center, Phoenix.Visit www.apwa.net.
Sept. 28-30
National Rural Water Association WaterPro Conference, Oklahoma City.
Visit www.nrwa.org.
Oct. 11-14
American Society of Civil Engineers 2015 Convention, New York City.
Visit www.asce.org.
Oct. 12-16
American Water Works Association 2015 Water Infrastructure Conference and
Exposition, Bethesda, Md.Visit www.awwa.org.
Municipal Sewer & Water invites your national, state or local association to post
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From left, Mayor Bernard Carvalho Jr., Department of Water Board Chair
Daryl Kaneshiro, County of Kaua’i Council Chair Jay Furfaro, and project
manager Dustin Moises attend a dedication ceremony for a new 500,000gallon tank in Oma’o, led by kahu (or pastor) Ipo Kahaunaele.
“It’s easier to send a driver
to pick up toilets if they’re
all in one spot. I probably
spent a little bit extra labor,
but at least you don’t
have to send somebody
with a map to go to this
campground, get these six,
go to another campground,
in diameter for those lines serving
ing 455 inches annually. This is also
just a few customers on isolated
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rainfall in parts of the island. Our
up to 90 years old.
water supply relies 85 percent on
the Main event
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tanks, then transmitted through a
water supply levels, storage capacity
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T
he County of Kauai
Department of Water,
charged with the task
of supplying water
across the island of
Kauai, Hawaii, is working to unify
and modernize its water system
under its comprehensive Water Plan
2020. The plan, devised in 2000,
aims to upgrade aging water infrastructure, unite separate water systems and ensure an abundant supply
of quality water for the future on
firm financial footing.
The department currently operates 11 unconnected water systems
ranging from Haena in the north
to Kekaha in the south. While the
island covers more than 560 square
miles, the water distribution system
covers 68 square miles, primarily
along the island’s coast.
The department monitors, operates and maintains 50 deep well
pumping stations, 19 booster pumping stations, four tunnel sources, 58
storage tanks, 75 control valve stations and over 400 miles of pipeline
Let’s roLL
Craig Shirai feeds 1-inch soft
copper pipe through a hole bored
by the Grundomat horizontal
boring tool from TT Technologies.
The first step in any major construction project undertaken by the
County of Kauai Department of Water is the blessing of the project by
a Hawaiian kahu, a local spiritual leader.
“The grounds of the island are sacred in so many ways,” says Bill
Eddy, deputy manager with the department. “We have a priest or
priestess bless the grounds in any project that involves digging.”
Eddy notes that the original Hawaiians didn’t possess iron tools and
used wooden or stone tools instead.
“Because digging in firm ground was so difficult, they buried their
ancestors in the sand or in caves,” he says. “When we break ground to
construct a pipeline in the sandy areas along the coast, we sometimes
The Hawaiian island of Kauai is meeting the challenges of its geography,
climate and remote location while revitalizing its aging water system
By Peter Kenter
February 25 - 28, 2013, Indiana Convention Center
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unloads a Satellite Industries Maxim 3000
restroom at the Oregon Jamboree.
(Photos by Peter Krupp)
Lisa and Scott Weld, owners of Buck’s
Sanitary Service in Eugene, Ore., have a
staff of 10 — an office worker, yard worker,
part-time mechanic and seven drivers.
Lisa works in the office answering phones
and managing the creative and marketing
side while Scott fills in on everything
from ofmanagement
to Eddy,
running
to
Deputy Manager
Engineering Bill
left, routes
pipefitter
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equipment operator
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lead
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the
pipefitter Craig Shirai (out of view) work to replace
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along with
the Welds
copper piping.
(Photography
by Dianne
Reynolds)
and their three children, Maren, 9; Milah,
13; and Sten, 17; who are accustomed to
helping out at events.
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the lives of island residents.”
Advanced Containment Systems, Inc. About 50 percent of their work is
special events, including, in 2012, the U.S. Olympic track-and-field trials.
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and the financial needs of the system.
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community
were
has
topmeetings
talent everthat
since.
In 2012, the 9,000 residents welcomed
held by
manager
Ernest
Lau of
at whom
the camped out. Judd was back to help
40,000
visitors
August
3-5, most
time. The
was heavily
celebrate
thecommunity
Jamboree’s 20th
anniversary, along with Rascal Flatts, Dierks
involvedthe
in Charlie
developing
the plan,
Bentley,
Daniels
Band,and
and enough performers for 22 shows on
YEAR
ESTABLISHED:
that’s
whyOther
the plan
has been
imple- beer and
two
stages.
attractions
included
wine
gardens, merchandise
1960
mented
much
further
booths
and without
a kids’ zone.
The event
is held in a no-facilities, 20-acre park-like
debate
in fithe
nancing
setting
near
edge ofthe
theprojects.”
picturesque town.POPULATION SERVED:
To date, $125 million of a pro66,000
posed $600 million has been spent
AREA SERVED:
By
nuMBers
on the
the program
with the department
68 square miles
making
good progress
on in
its 265
con-units (20 Maxims, 10 Freedoms, 20
The company
brought
DEPARTMENT STAFF:
structionone
schedule.
Liberties,
Standing Room Only urinal unit, and the balance Tufways),
75
involves
continuthreeCurrent
restroomwork
trailers,
and a73
hand-wash stations (half Satellite Industries
INFRASTRUCTURE:
ing
emphasis
on
replacing
pipelines.
Waves from the company’s inventory, the rest PolyPortables, Inc. Tag Alongs
400 miles of water mains
“Each
the old pipe materials
rented
from of
a colleague).
continues to display its own weakANNUAL DEPARTMENT
Some 115 units, including five handicap-accessible,
were set up at the
ness,” notes Eddy. “We’re seeing failBUDGET:
main venue — a few at bus stops, the hospitality
center, and parking lots,
ures in the joints and rubber gaskets
Operating, $25.4 million;
but the bulk in large banks, along with six to eight hand-wash stations, were
capital, $26.2 million (2013)
of asbestos cement pipe that have
placed at the four corners of the facility. The crew placed the ACSI trailers
caused us a lot of trouble. Cast iron
ASSOCIATIONS:
near the stage for the performers and the Ameri-Can
Engineering trailer in
lines become brittle and are subject
American
the food court/beer garden, along with the urinal
unit. Water Works
to full circle cracks, often due to
Association, Hawaii Water
and six hand-wash
were arranged
in twoNational
banks
treeThirty
rootsunits
or ground
shifts. PVCstationsWorks
Association,
atreaching
a smaller,
venue.
Thelife
rest of the
inventory
taken to 23
Rural
Waterwas
Association
theadjacent
end of its
service
campgrounds.
Thirteen
units were
rented to individual campsites.
is subject to lateral
cracks,
particuWEBSITE:
(continued)
larly the thinner material installed
www.kauaiwater.org
decades ago.”
(continued)
PROFILE:
Department of
Water, County of
Kauai, Hawaii
Eight times, Sunday through Wednesday, a caravan of three trailers
made the hour-long drive up Interstate 5 from the company’s yard to the
Jamboree site to deliver units. Two of their 15-year-old company-built
trailers held 16 units each and a third trailer carried 20 (also company-built,
using an Explorer receiver from McKee Technologies, Inc.). The company
used service vehicles to pull the trailers.
Weld tried a new approach for the removal process. Sunday night
and continuing Monday, the team pumped and moved all units to a single
staging area, which he felt simplified the job. “It’s easier to send a driver to
pick up toilets if they’re all in one spot,” he explains. “I probably spent a little
bit extra labor, but at least you don’t have to send somebody with a map to
go to this campground, get these six, go to another campground, get these
eight. Then you start leaving sinks behind and the (handicap unit) doesn’t
fit. It’s just a logistics nightmare trying to get the loads to work out.” During
the week, they grabbed units as schedules permitted.
keepin’ it cLean
Jamboree organizers required someone be on site and available by
radio at all times so Weld, his son and another member of the team stayed in
a motor home at one of the campgrounds.
Venue units were serviced each night from 11 p.m. to 2 a.m. At 6:30
a.m. they started in on the campground units, finishing around 9:30 a.m.
During the day, they pumped out 20 RVs and 19 holding tanks — 10 at the
two shower facilities and the balance for the food vendors.
“The very day we found out we’d
have to move our shop, somebody
came through the door and said,
‘Do you want to buy Buck’s back?’
It was really a door closing, door
opening, all in the same day.”
Scott Weld
coMpany history
In April 2012, Lisa and Scott Weld
bought Buck’s — for the second time. Their
first crack at it was in 1995 when Scott’s
father heard the 20-year-old business was
having problems. The family made an offer
to the founder and operated it for four
years as an add-on to their trash and septic
“The island has uniqueservice
challenges
in securing
its water
business.
In 1999, when
Weld’s
supply. One side of the father
islandretired,
receives
rain
they 13
soldinches
it to a of
national
solid waste
company.
Weld
went to work
per year, while the other
is the
wettest
location
for that company, then 10 years later tried
on Earth, receiving
455 inches annually.”
POSTERS
his hand again at self-employment in the
Bill Eddy
trash
business. A few challenges cropped
up, but they turned out to be fortuitous,
serving approximately 66,000 resisays Lisalenges
Weld.in securing its water supply,”
dents. All department revenues are
says Bill Eddy, deputy manager and
derived from water sales.
engineer with the department. “One
side of the island receives 13 inches
of rain per year, while the other is
(continued)
the wettest location on Earth,
receiv“The island has unique chal(continued)
Unique supply challenges
and private property,” Eddy says.
“Access and maintenance has been
a problem with these pipelines.”
In-house crews tackle mainline
replacement jobs up to 500 feet in
length. The work is primarily digand-replace.
“We have also done several horizontal directional drilling (HDD)
projects using both HDPE and fusible PVC C900,” Eddy says. “Most
HDD work has been done at stream
crossings, a few of them under emergency conditions when existing pipelines were damaged during severe
winter storms. We did one slipline
job on an old 27-inch steel pipe,
sliplined with 16-inch HDPE.”
Outside contractors are engaged
in larger projects, often shipping in
workers and equipment by barge.
department switched from a traditional low bid process to a request
for proposal system. While the major
transition temporarily slowed the
pace at which projects were advertised, the new approach is expected
to provide higher-quality contractors that will assist the department
in remaining on schedule and on
budget.
The department currently has
no leak detection program in place,
because it has found it challenging
to attract qualified technicians to the
island. Kauai has already purchased
SubSurface LD-12 listening devices,
FCS Permaloggers and ZCorr correlators, but currently uses its SCADA
system to detect most large leaks.
Repair crews are split into two
teams, with field crews handling
pipelines and distribution located
along the coast, and plant crews hanSwitching
to RFPs
^^^ Satellite Industries Tufway restrooms are lined up and ready to go before the
dling
andofstorage
tanks located
During
fiscal year
2011-12,
the strung
Oregon
Jamboree,
complete
with lighting
in wells
the front
the units.
Bill Eddy, deputy manager and engineer,
County of Kauai Department of Water.
Five service vehicles were used: A 2010 Peterbilt 335 and a 2008
International 4300, both built out by Progress Vactruck with 1,500-gallon
waste/500-gallon freshwater aluminum tanks; a 2001 Isuzu FTR from
Workmate/FMI Truck Sales & Service with an 850-gallon waste/350-gallon
freshwater steel tank; and two 2000 International 4700s built out by Lely
Manufacturing Inc. with 750-gallon waste/350-gallon freshwater steel tanks.
All have Masport pumps.
Waste was transported to the company’s yard each night and transferred
to a 20,000-gallon tank. From there, another pumping contractor picked up
the waste and disposed of it by land application.
But different
JefferysaMe
Silva (foreground)
and Corey Silva clean caked red Kauai dirt off a
Grundomat
toolan(TT
Inhorizontal
one sense, boring
Weld was
oldTechnologies).
pro at this event, so it was “pretty much
business as usual,” he says. On the other hand, the size and scope had
changed
significantly
the amazement
years — their first
brought in 60
“I
watched
with over
some
at year,
the they
number
for one venue and four campgrounds. “That was the most difficult
ofunits
community
meetings that were held by manager
thing for me,” he says. “So I had to get my act together.” He quickly got his
Ernest
Lau it.
at“You’ve
the time.
The
community
was
heavily
arms around
got to just
scratch
your head and
kick
it in gear and
go. We in
didn’t
stop moving all
weekend.”
involved
developing
the
plan, ■and that’s why the plan
has been implemented without much further debate
in financing the projects.”
David Craddick
Honolulu are notorious for attacking water infrastructure, the exterior of iron pipe fares well in Kauai,
making ductile iron the replacement
material of choice.
Mains buried deeper
The Kauai team is now burying
new mains deeper than in the past.
“Some of the older pipes were buried less than 3 feet deep, and we’re
now adding 3 feet of cover to the
top of the pipe,” Eddy says. “We’re
enforcing the new standard to see
if it has an effect on breakage.”
Sections of older pipelines are
also being aligned with public roads
as they are replaced. “From the
1920s to the 1950s, they were typically aligned along the shortest
route, which caused them to be
installed through pastures, forests
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The Hawaiian island of Kauai is meeting the challenges of its geography,
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The Kauai water
By Peter Kenter
department traverses
The department currently operhe County of Kauai
a clearDepartment
pathof Water,
toward
ates 11 unconnected water systems
ranging from Haena in the north
with the task
system ofcharged
revitalization
to Kekaha in the south. While the
supplying water
T
across the island of
Kauai, Hawaii, is working to unify
and modernize its water system
under its comprehensive Water Plan
2020. The plan, devised in 2000,
aims to upgrade aging water infrastructure, unite separate water systems and ensure an abundant supply
of quality water for the future on
firm financial footing.
island
PAGE
18covers more than 560 square
miles, the water distribution system
covers 68 square miles, primarily
along the island’s coast.
The department monitors, operates and maintains 50 deep well
pumping stations, 19 booster pumping stations, four tunnel sources, 58
storage tanks, 75 control valve stations and over 400 miles of pipeline
“The island has unique challenges in securing its water
supply. One side of the island receives 13 inches of rain
per year, while the other is the wettest location
on Earth, receiving 455 inches annually.”
Bill Eddy
serving approximately 66,000 residents. All department revenues are
derived from water sales.
Unique supply challenges
“The island has unique chal-
lenges in securing its water supply,”
says Bill Eddy, deputy manager and
engineer with the department. “One
side of the island receives 13 inches
of rain per year, while the other is
the wettest location on Earth, receiv(continued)
From left, Mayor Bernard Carvalho Jr., Department of Water Board Chair
Daryl Kaneshiro, County of Kaua’i Council Chair Jay Furfaro, and project
manager Dustin Moises attend a dedication ceremony for a new 500,000gallon tank in Oma’o, led by kahu (or pastor) Ipo Kahaunaele.
Craig Shirai feeds 1-inch soft
copper pipe through a hole bored
by the Grundomat horizontal
boring tool from TT Technologies.
and the financial needs of the system.
The survey rated the condition
of the overall system as poor, noting the deterioration of pipelines
and mapping a series of vulnerable
mainlines located in remote areas
with poor access that impeded repair
and maintenance.
That study preceded Water Plan
2020, a thorough roadmap to revitalizing the water system.
“I was the director at the Maui
Water Board at the time that Water
Plan 2020 was being developed,” says
David Craddick, current manager and
chief engineer at Kauai. “I watched
with some amazement at the number
of community meetings that were
held by manager Ernest Lau at the
time. The community was heavily
involved in developing the plan, and
YEAR ESTABLISHED:
that’s why the plan has been imple1960
mented without much further
debate in financing the projects.”
POPULATION SERVED:
To date, $125 million of a pro66,000
posed $600 million has been spent
AREA SERVED:
on the program with the department
68 square miles
making good progress on its conDEPARTMENT STAFF:
struction schedule.
75
Current work involves a continuSilva
(foreground)
and Corey
Silva clean INFRASTRUCTURE:
caked red Kauai dirt off a
in diameter for those lines servingJefferying
emphasis
on replacing
pipelines.
horizontal
boring
(TT Technologies).
400 miles of water mains
just a few customers on isolatedGrundomat
“Each
of the old
pipetool
materials
ISLAND WATER PROJECTS
BEGIN WITH A BLESSING
The first step in any major construction project undertaken by the
County of Kauai Department of Water is the blessing of the project by
a Hawaiian kahu, a local spiritual leader.
“The grounds of the island are sacred in so many ways,” says Bill
Eddy, deputy manager with the department. “We have a priest or
priestess bless the grounds in any project that involves digging.”
Eddy notes that the original Hawaiians didn’t possess iron tools and
used wooden or stone tools instead.
“Because digging in firm ground was so difficult, they buried their
ancestors in the sand or in caves,” he says. “When we break ground to
construct a pipeline in the sandy areas along the coast, we sometimes
come across a burial site, so we have the area blessed and ask forgiveness for disturbing the dead.”
Any contact with historic artifacts or burial sites is also overseen
by a cultural monitor, an archeological expert, the Kauai Burial Council
and the State Historic Preservation Division to ensure that any bones
of the deceased — iwi — are treated with care and respect.
“At the end of a project, we also hold a dedication ceremony in
which we give thanks for keeping the workers safe,” Eddy says.
“Improving the water system is considered good work that improves
the lives of island residents.”
ing 455 inches annually. This is also
the oldest of the main Hawaiian
islands and the most eroded. Fresh
rock is more permeable, but old
rock doesn’t offer good geology for
wells, so we still need to practice
water conservation despite the heavy
rainfall in parts of the island. Our
water supply relies 85 percent on
groundwater and 15 percent on surface water.”
Water is pumped into storage
tanks, then transmitted through a
pipe system ranging from 3/4 inches
and private property,” Eddy says.
“Access and maintenance has been
a problem with these pipelines.”
In-house crews tackle mainline
replacement jobs up to 500 feet in
length. The work is primarily digand-replace.
“We have also done several horhor
izontal directional drilling (HDD)
projects using both HDPE and fusible PVC C900,” Eddy says. “Most
HDD work has been done at stream
crossings, a few of them under emer
emergency conditions when existing pipeA newly installed water meter from lines were damaged during severe
Badger Meter.
winter storms. We did one slipline
job on an old 27-inch steel pipe,
Ductile iron is faring much bet- sliplined with 16-inch HDPE.”
ter, with occasional pinholes presentOutside contractors are engaged
ing the worst problems. Eddy notes in larger projects, often shipping in
that the island is fortunate to pos- workers and equipment by barge.
sess largely neutral soil.
While aggressive
Switching to RFPs
soils in Oahu and
During fiscal year 2011-12, the
PROFILE:
Department of
Water, County of
Kauai, Hawaii
department switched from a tradi
traditional low bid process to a request
for proposal system. While the major
transition temporarily slowed the
pace at which projects were adver
advertised, the new approach is expected
to provide higher-quality contrac
contractors that will assist the department
in remaining on schedule and on
budget.
The department currently has
no leak detection program in place,
because it has found it challenging
to attract qualified technicians to the
island. Kauai has already purchased
SubSurface LD-12 listening devices,
FCS Permaloggers and ZCorr cor
correlators, but currently uses its SCADA
system to detect most large leaks.
Repair crews are split into two
teams, with field crews handling
pipelines and distribution located
along the coast, and plant crews han
handling wells and storage tanks located
Bill Eddy, deputy manager and engineer,
County of Kauai Department of Water.
routes to 24-inch mains. The districontinues to display its own weakANNUAL DEPARTMENT
bution system is comprised of everyness,”
notes Eddy.
“We’re
seeingamazement
failBUDGET:
“I
watched
with
some
at the number
thing from galvanized steel to
ures in the joints and rubber gaskets
Operating, $25.4 million;
meetings
that were
held$26.2
by manager
capital,
million (2013)
asbestos cement, cast iron, ductile ofofcommunity
asbestos cement
pipe that have
Lau
time.
was heavily
iron, concrete cylinder and PVC. Ernest
caused us
a lotat
ofthe
trouble.
CastThe
iron community
ASSOCIATIONS:
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lines become
brittle and arethe
subject
American
Works
in developing
plan, and
that’sWater
why the
plan
up to 90 years old.
to full circle cracks, often due to
Association,
Hawaii
Water
has
been implemented without much
further
debate
A thorough survey of the system
tree roots or ground shifts. PVC
Works Association, National
in financing
the projects.”
Rural Water Association
conducted in the late 1990s revealed
reaching the end
of its service life
deficiencies in pipe condition, along
is subject to lateral cracks,
particuDavid
Craddick WEBSITE:
with concerns about system capacity,
larly the thinner material installed
www.kauaiwater.org
water supply levels, storage capacityHonolulu
decades
now adding 3 feet of cover to the
are ago.”
notorious for attacktop of the pipe,” Eddy says. (continued)
“We’re
ing water infrastructure, the exte-
rior of iron pipe fares well in Kauai,
making ductile iron the replacement
material of choice.
Mains buried deeper
The Kauai team is now burying
new mains deeper than in the past.
“Some of the older pipes were bur
buried less than 3 feet deep, and we’re
enforcing the new standard to see
if it has an effect on breakage.”
Sections of older pipelines are
also being aligned with public roads
as they are replaced. “From the
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